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Segmentation faults in Linux

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pitupepito2000

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Hi,

I use Linux and I have been having a lot of problems with some applications that are having segmentation faults. Some of those applications are: wine, mozilla, tux racer and mplayer. I don't know what is causing this segmentation fault. In mozill I think that it has something to do with the plugins because when I try to view a webpage that has java or flash, it just quits. With mplayer it won't play any movies at all. I use Debian.

Please help me figure this out,
pitupepito 🙁

P.S.: I have had this problem for months now and I have been trying to find a solution for it. I have searched the internet extensively. Please help me.😕
 
Mnn. Debian, eh?

Are you using the stable branch?

My guess would be that somwhow things got corrupted on your harddrive, but I would double check some other things first.

You know, run tests to check your RAM. Make sure that there is nothing messing up there. I have a ram checker built into my bios, but there are other good mem checkers out there.

Other than that.. Do you get any errors like cnc checking or stuff like that when you boot up?

If it's not your hardware fouling up then I would try to use debian's package management to reinstall everything. I am little bit rusty with debian, but I would guess run "apt-get update" to make sure that apt-get is all there and is sane.

Then I'd use dselect to first uninstall different packages associated with those that are crashing. And then once you finish that, then I would just reinstall the bits you need back.

Dselect is what I like using... You can use the "/" button to start content searches thru there and find all the packages with mozilla in it's name and so on and so forth.

It's realy bad that this stuff is happening. It wouldn't be suprising if it happened to one or two applications since bugs do exist in all software, but not system-wide like this. Something big is fouled up...
 
I had a similar problem. It was cheap memory and a bad hard drive.

I say it was both, because I replaced the memory, and I got fewer faults, but they still occured.
 
hehe, chaotic42, the bad mem sticks probably toffued the information on the harddrive from the install
 
Originally posted by: drag
hehe, chaotic42, the bad mem sticks probably toffued the information on the harddrive from the install
Click to expand...

Yeah, I was going to say that, but I'm not feeling right today. I actually thought I posted that...

😱
 
Similarly, if your memory is overclocked or otherwise boosted (CAS 2, 4-Bank Interleave, etc.), you can see problems like this. Definitely sounds like some kind of memory issue.
 
Hi,

Thanks for the replies, but I have checked my RAM before and it was fine. Also for example when I uninstall flash in Linux, mozilla won't exit every time there's a flash page. I think that it has something to do with the java and flash plugin, because when I find a page that has one requires one of those plugins, mozilla just exits with a seg fault. otherwise mozilla is fine.

I don't know what is causing this because konqueror will load the java applets, but it won't load any flash, and konqueror doesn't exit with a segmentation fault like mozilla when there's a page with java or flash.

thanks for all your help,
pitupepito
 
Just to clarify... are you running overclocked or with aggressive memory timings? There are other possible causes, of course, but memory/CPU seems by far most likely to me. And don't assume that because certain settings are OK in Windows that they will be in Linux as well.
 
I am using SPD, which should be fine. I have never had this problem before on linux, but it started to happen a few months ago. I haven't been able to figure out what it is.

I think that it might have something to do with the sound because the artsd is not working either and is also giving me some segmentation faults. Now that I think about it don't java and flash use sound, so if they are relying on kde to take care of the sound, and kde is not working maybe that's why mozilla exits when there's a flash or java plugin.

thanks for the help,
pitupepito 🙁
 
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