Questions tagged [segmentation-fault]
Problems related to an attempt made to access memory that the CPU cannot physically address. Also knows as segfault or bus error.
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What is a segmentation fault?
In Ubuntu I have faced the segmentation fault error many times. What is a segmentation fault and when does it occur?
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Segmentation fault (core dumped) in nam ubuntu 14.04 [closed]
when i use NS2 through terminal i keep getting a segment fault (core dumped) message.
g_0zek@g-0zeK-pc:~$ ns lab1.tcl
g_0zek@g-0zeK-pc:~$ nam lab1.nam
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
despite that ...
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pop-theme causes gnome-control-center segmentation fault
Ubuntu 19.10
Gnome 3.28
I'm trying to run gnome-control-center
Result:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Clear gnome-control-center .cache and .config
Remove all gnome extensions
Installed all ...
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Where do I find core dump files, and how do I view and analyze the backtrace (stack trace) in one?
When I run my C program on Ubuntu 20.04, I get this run-time error:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I really need to find and view the core file, but I can't find it anywhere. Where is it, and how ...
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Unity-control-center segmentation fault [closed]
I cannot open the system settings anymore.
unity-control-center
(unity-control-center:23772): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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VLC crashes when opening any file, Ubuntu 20.04
My VLC player crashes every time I'm trying to open any video file. Removing/purging vlc, and reinstalling it does not change anything.
I recently upgraded my distro to 20.04 from 19.10. I never had ...
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Segmentation fault while installing Python 3.5: ensurepip
I got a segmentation fault while trying to install Python 3.5 on Ubuntu 21.10.
$ guettli@p15:~$ pyenv install 3.5.8
Downloading Python-3.5.8.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.8/...
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apt-get - Segmentation fault: Error Processing package libc-bin
Hi I am struggling with this for the past one month.
sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get autoremove is erroring out with following error
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
When I am running ...
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segmentation fault when using su or sudo
example of the problem:
$ su
Segmentation fault
$ sudo ls
Segmentation fault
I tried to compile sqlite3 from source earlier. I don't know what libraries it installed. This may be the reason why this ...
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software-center update-manager both get segmentation fault
I am using Ubuntu 11.10. After upgrading, neither software-center nor update-manager would run. I get a segmentation fault when launched from the console.
I can do sudo apt-get update without problem, ...
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nautilus exiting with segmentation fault after upgrade [closed]
I upgraded to UBuntu 11.10 yesterday from 11.04. Everything went smoothly except the fact that nautilus wont start anymore. It exits with a segmentation fault. Any idea how to stop this from happening....
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How can I rollback my GParted version?
I'm using ubuntu 14.04 with GParted 0.18. However, it seems to be inferior to previous iterations of it because it crashes every single time I try to resize a FAT32 partition or when I create a new ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.4 startup stuck after package updates / mesa segmentation fault
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/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[5106]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x56131d0000f7
The startup problem
I shut down Ubuntu 18.04.4 on my machine today and cold-started it somewhat later. Now ...
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Trying to install Neverwinter Nights again, and having yet another different failure
So, as the title says, I'm trying to install NWN again. It went awry a while back in a Kubuntu VM ( as noted here: Neverwinter Nights hangs at startup in my Kubuntu 14.10 VMWare Guest), and I got some ...
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Cheese not launching- (Error restoring saved CRTC)
I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 for about 4 months now and have launched cheese a few times without any issue.
priyanshu@Inspiron-7501:~$ cheese
(cheese:499251): Cogl-WARNING **: 17:34:35.299: winsys/...
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Kubuntu Ksplashqml crashed
This is related to Ksplashqml crash on startup
I dont have enough reputation yet, to post an answer, so i decided to give an answer via my own question...
Yesterday, when i restarted my PC, I got an ...
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libc-bin dpkg segmentation fault
In an apt-get upgrade i got stuck in this situation where libc-bin constantly provides Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I tried several apt commands such as clean, dpkg-reconfigure and --reinstall ...
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Scilab 6.0.0 segmentation fault (core dumped) on start
I have Scilab 6.0.0 on ubuntu 16.04 LTS and it was working great until yesterday. I tried to execute the program via terminal (./bin/scilab) and I got the error "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".
I'...
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Kernel panic at boot and many programs segfault / core dump
Today I booted up an Ubuntu computer I last used when it was working fine 2 weeks ago, and now every kernel I have (4.15.x and 4.13.x) panics at the beginning of boot, including in recovery mode.
I ...
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eog does not recognize .png file format and many icons are gone
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and XFCE desktop on a PC with nVidia graphics card. I ran into Segmentation fault during a Ubuntu update process. An very inconvenient consequence is that .png files cannot be ...
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