Segmentation Fault problem

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Stiffler · Post by **Stiffler** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 7:23 pm

I keep getting segmentation fault problems on my emerges. It started with libxml, and now I get it with Apache2. Are there any idea in how I can fix this problem? I can post whatever you need me to.

Edit: I changed my "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" to "~x86". Do I need to run "emerge rsync" after this?

linux_weenie · Post by **linux_weenie** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:36 am

segmentation faults are generally due to faulty hardware, you might check out http://www.memtest86.com that will check your memory to make sure nothing in memory is failing. if it errors it probably means you need to buy a new stick of memory. that fixed my segmentation fault problems when i was using slack9. might also try someother diagnostic software to try and narrow the problem down if the memory isn't the culprit. hope that helps.

-Will

nabla · Post by **nabla** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:14 am

hi,

linux_weenie is surely wright, i had exactly the same problem with bad stick of memory. run memtest on the gentoo-bootcd.

cu

Stiffler · Post by **Stiffler** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:16 pm

Alright, thanks. I've found the segmentation faults to be sporadic. If a compile faults out, I can compile it again and it will work. I'll try that memtest program...

linux_weenie · Post by **linux_weenie** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:27 pm

no problem. just let us know if memtest doesn't find any problems.

-Will

singaya · Post by **singaya** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:48 pm

Hi

I'm having similiar problem. I've found out that it's something with pipe. Mainly if I compile something bigger and use emake in ebuilds, I get those segfaults. When I change to plain make, everything goes ok. I've tested it on two computers and get same story, so I think it's not hardware problem. Second thing is that it starts to happen when my Gentoo is fully updated (everything newest), when I start installing it from begining I don't get any seg faults. Thought that it was gcc problem (bad flags during gcc compilation) so I've recompiled gcc but problem would still apear. Now if I compile something that gives me seg fault (or hangs my comp) I change from emake to make in ebuild and it compiles without any problems. Not sure what is the reason of such thing. Any suggestions??

Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.