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Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt |
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segfaults. |
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For example, yesterday, I tried to start firefox, and before it even |
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displayed its window, it died with a segfault. |
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Even portage was a victim of this: trying to emerge anything, or |
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even do an "emerge search" resulted in an almost instant segfault. |
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The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), |
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the problem went away---everything just started working. |
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Last night, my email client, mutt, suddenly started having this |
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problem: I could use it, up until switching to the "gentoo-user" |
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folder, when it would crash with a segmentation fault. X was hung, |
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so I rebooted. Now I can get into my gentoo-user folder... but for |
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how long? |
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All of my system partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) reside on an ext3 |
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filesystem; I ran e2fsck on all partitions. I've also run "smartctl |
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-t long" on the disk---no problems reported. So I don't think my |
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hard drive is dying. |
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Anyone else ever experience anything like this? Anyone have any |
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thoughts as to what the problem might be? |
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Thanks! |
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Matt |
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Matt Garman |
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email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email |
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