Hi, I've been running Debian Linux for one year now on my P200MMX (mainboard FIC VA-502, chipset VIA 580VPX, AWARD BIOS, memory 2x32MB SDRAM, ATI Mach64 RageII+DVD, harddisks Quantum Bigfoot 2.1GB on /dev/hda, Seagate ST3491A 428MB on /dev/hdc, 24xCDROM on /dev/hdb, soundcard SB16 clone). The system works fine so far. But there are some programs that regularly cause a segmentation fault. Among them are procinfo which stops after the " uptime: / context :" line, dbf2mysql and mysql2dbf, pspp, ... Also nearly every complex program seems to have routines in it causing that problem, e.g. StarOffice, Wingz, acm, ... I changed nearly every switch in the BIOS configuration, flashed the BIOS, changed CPU voltage, tried a lot of kernel configurations, exchanged the memory against 2x16MB EDO, booted w/ "mem=4M no-hlt no387" options, installed several times on different harddisks (both hamm and slink), built my harddisk in a friend's computer, but nothing changed. This behavior is not related to high system load as I had never a segfault while compiling the kernel or running a burn-in program like lucifer thus increasing processor load to 4.0 and above. I have not overclocked my system. Recently I found that /usr/lib/libc.so is not an ELF shared object as the other libs but a 'GNU ld script'. I compiled it using 'ld -shared /usr/lib/libc.so' and installed the output as /usr/lib/libc.so. dbf2mysql and mysql2dbf started to work then, but the other programs failed anyway.
If anyone knows what could cause my Segmentation faults and how to fix it please drop me a line. I'm near to the Gates of hell otherwise. I could provide you with any details, listings and output if this is of use for you. Thanks in advance! Matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~mb264183
