On Nov 27 2000, Daniel Ferrante wrote:
> When I try to create an image (of, say, my home directory) after a
> certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The interesting thing is
> that, this "certain time" varies every time I run the command!
This is the most common case of a segmentation fault happening
due to memory programs. Since mkisofs makes extensive use of
memory in a short period of time, it actually happens to
trigger bad memory quite easily.
So, I'd recommend you to check your memory (use memtest86 --
use google for that) for 1 or 2 days.
The fact that it happens randomly each time and that it
freezes your system (does Linux issue an Oops?) seems to be a
stronger evidence in that direction.
[]s, Roger...
P.S.: Reply to the list.
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