Questions tagged [segmentation-fault]
A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or bus error occurs when the hardware notifies a Unix-like Operating system about a memory access violation.
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Signal handling in debugger in linux
I am working on a debugger and found an issue.
I start at the beginning of the dynamic linker (this is a low-level debugger). At this address, I set it so that for a particular signal, the process ...
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QT applications segfault under WAYLAND in GNOME
I cannot launch any QT application from gnome-shell because they segfault.
e.g. torbrowser-launcher
Jun 28 12:25:43 arch-xps systemd[1452]: Started Application launched by gnome-shell.
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Why does VirtualBox segfault after an update on Arch Linux?
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After doing a pacman -Syu on a system I'm now experiencing that VirtualBox VMs are capable of crashing X11 and dropping me into a console shell.
I see this in dmesg:
[ 590.841154] ...
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ksplashqml signal segmentation fault after login KDE
Self answered question for people with same problem.
After an upgrade of my kali (debian based) I was able to log in and find "ksplashqml signal segmentation fault" error crash in a black ...
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"Segment fault (core dumped)" whatever command I typed after "yum install kernel-devel"
I was going to install my NVIDIA driver of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-565.77.run, and it showed
Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed ...
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Mutt Segmentation Fault with MX Linux 21.3 #129
New noob here. Using MX Linux, set up Mutt with gmail. Was initially successful. Emails and all. Then at some point when trying to use again, it stuck at 4% giving a segmentation fault. Using gdb it ...
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Failed to core dump with send_sig(task, SIGSEGV, 1) from Linux kernel
I am working in an embedded Linux system, and now I want to trigger a core dump from within kernel by using send_sig(task, SIGSEGV, 1).
There is a process A having 10 threads, occasionally, there is a ...
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sudo segmentation fault
In a remote system to which I don't have console access, which I'm connecting through ssh, I broke the sudo installation and now I'm not able to use it at all, and I'm not able to restart as a root. ...
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lib/xorg/Xorg →lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so →xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so causes a segmentation fault. Should I report that to Debian team?
Using current debian release,
Linux debian 6.1.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.106-3 (2024-08-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
my session aborted and returned after a while to the login screen when I ...
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Segmentation Fault (core dumped) with SIGSEGV in Gaussrate
I'm a chemist using a computational chemistry software called Gaussrate, and I'm encountering a segmentation fault that I don't know how to resolve. I have very limited knowledge of programming or ...
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Android's emulator command crashes with Segmentation fault on Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
I have Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon running and installed Android studio including its emulator.
Now a lot of people run into all sorts of problems when trying to actually emulate a device, but for me the ...
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How to dump user space stacks in Linux kernel on memory fault?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (kernel-5.10.24), the CPU is 32bit MIPs.
The applications run in the system may trigger invalid memory access, which will be shot by a SIGSEGV from kernel, and ...
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Can't open gnome-terminal on fedora 40
When I open (gnome) terminal, nothing happens, no error no nothing. I've tried uninstalling it and rebooting followed by a reinstall and all the different combinations of that.
I'm able to install and ...
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Segmentation fault when running binaries from second drive
When I try to run any executable from my second (NTFS) drive, I get a segmentation fault. If I run the exact same executable from, for example, my home folder, it works just fine.
For example:
I ...
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How to uninstall a package from Debian backports (not a duplicate Q)
I know there are a few Questions here which ask the same question I appear to be asking. I have tried those suggestions 1 & 2, but they do not work in this case. Here's what has happened:
pi@...
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