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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Qt4 applications segfaulting on startup
Yesterday I was developing a Qt4 application, and suddenly, the program would segfault on startup. I decided to upgrade to Qt5 and that fixed the issue.
However, I have noticed that all Qt4 apps seem ...
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Screen flashing on boot, gui repeatedly failing to load, segfault in libmutter
Last night i updated my ubuntu install, today the GUI won't start up.
When i boot, the gui starts up and the screen flickers between the CLI login and black (i assume trying to load the gui repeatedly)...
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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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Segmentation Fault issues with a few applications
I've recently upgraded from a VPS to a dedicated server to host my game-servers and IT projects on. However, I face Segmentation Fault issues with two dedicated server applications that run the game-...
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Ubuntu 16.04 xrdp issue: programs do not run remotely
I use Ubuntu 16.04.2. I installed xrdp and xfce4 according to this page. It was OK and I ran some program remotely.
Then I installed some programs on the system such as CUDA 8.0, Oracle Java, openssh,...
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Matlab crashes segmentation violation
I am using MATLAB 2016b and it crashes due to segmentation violation every time i run some programs on it
Following is the error , could some one please help me with this problem
could not create ...
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Paraview 5.0.1 on Xenial: "find data" leads to segmentation fault
I am using Paraview 5.0.1 from the Xenial repositories. Trying to select data using the "find data" menu leads to a segmentation fault.
The same version of Paraview is installed by OpenFoam 4.1 and ...
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Modem Manager Gui breaks after first time
I installed the application with apt and the first time app running well. I have connected my usb modem huawei e320 and works. the application showed me the sms and when i tried to click to see it, ...
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Disable "System program problem detected" for segfaults in my own programs
I don't mind being notified about system programs that SEGV -- I would actually like to report those cases, so this is not a duplicate of Getting “System program problem detected” pops up regularly ...
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Unity7 does not start up anymore after Update to 16.04
I upgraded to 16.04 on my laptop today and encountered a weird problem:
When I log in, the credential bars and the version number in the lower left disappear, just like it does when you usually log in....
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segmentation fault when using tar with --listed-incremental
When I run a script to invoke tar with the option "--listed-incremental", I get a segmentation fault. I have a loop with parses through 6 filesystems (a combination of ordinary partitions and LVM ...
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Steam/Steamcmd keeps segfaulting on Kubuntu 16.10 [closed]
This is my first question here so sorry if I sound dumb.
I'm using Kubuntu 16.10, and when I try to log in to Steam's client the app just crashes. Trying to run it in a terminal just results in it ...
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Chrome 54 regularly segfaulting during any usage
This recently began as of two days ago, Chrome will simply close randomly during regular usage.
I'm running chrome 54.0.2840.71 on Ubuntu 14.04.
This is running on my HTPC so during streaming on ...
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Segmentation Fault while updating repositories [duplicate]
When I run
sudo apt update
I get a segmentation fault with this error:
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success
'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/...
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How to compile GNU Emacs 25.1 on 16.10
I've managed to build and install (using checkinstall) an GNU Emacs 25.1 Debian package on 16.04, but on 16.10 for some unknown reason the compilation fails (at the make stage) giving the truncated ...
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nslcd segfaults at start on Ubuntu 14.04
During boot, nslcd segfaults with these errors in syslog:
nslcd: segfault at 10 ip 00007f49c7798404 sp 00007f49c2f85060 error 4
nslcd: segfault at 10 ip 00007f49c7798404 sp 00007f49c2784060 error 4 ...
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segmentation fault when i upgraded to 16.04 from 14.04
I did an upgrade from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. After the upgrade, I wrote a very simple perl program and tried to run it. It gave me Segmentation Error (core dumped) as an error. I used commands:
which ...
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Segmentation fault when running XFRESCO
I'm a research scholar and trying to run XFRESCO- a GUI for theoretical model code that I have to use for my calculations.
Whenever I try to use XFRESCO and reach the tab of partitions and then on ...
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Losing wired connection on ubuntu several times a day (segfault)
Several times a day I lose wired network connection. It is restored after a while.
Last time it happened, I looked at dmesg and found this:
CHTTPClientThre[12511]: segfault at ee931b6e ip ...
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NVIDIA Driver causes Segmentation fault of graphical applications
I have a little problem with the NVIDIA driver. I've built a PC for scientific computations on which I'm running MATLAB and other programs.
To speed up the computations I've included a NVIDIA Quadro ...
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Freezing issues every time I run Xorg/startx (fglrx: No matching Device/Segmentation fault)
I've just spent the last 3 days straight with no sleep attempting to get my first mining rig up and running, and I've well and truly hit a brick wall.
I'm using Ubuntu Server 14.04. This is basically ...
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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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Port ubuntu touch: segmentation fault (core dumped)
I asked previous question 2 weeks ago and don't got answer on it. This question still actual. I follow this guide to build my own ubuntu touch firmware and stuck on build your first Ubuntu image for a ...
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NetworkManager segfault every time I disconnect
Every time I disconnect from a wired or wireless network using the network manager applet, I get this in dmesg:
[ 2036.633608] NetworkManager[13108]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000048abc6 sp ...
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SquidGuard produces lots of segfaults
on my machine with Ubuntu 14.04 I'm using Squid3 (3.3.8-1ubuntu6.6) with SquidGuard (1.5-2) and the Shalla blacklist.
I can compile the blacklist files into its db-files without any issues but when ...
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Port Ubuntu Touch using Windows 10 ubuntu bash
I'm trying to port Ubuntu Touch to my phone using Windows 10 bash. After many try, i stuck on building the test image for Nexus 4 to check possible it's or not. And every time after starting building:
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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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Segmentation fault (core dumped) after 16.04 upgrade
I'm having this problem after i upgraded my kubuntu from 15.10 to 16.04.
Actually everything works fine, the problem is that whenever i try to use the sudo command with a specific user, the ...
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Black screen on startup without upstart (Ubuntu 15.10)
Currently when I try starting my computer in normal mode it will display the pulsating kubuntu logo and then a black screen will stay forever.
What I did to get here:
Installed Ubuntu 15.10, ...
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Segmentation Fault (Core Dump) Happen and NOT Happen on 2 Different Distro of Linux [closed]
I'm a newbie to Linux OS, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64 bit) to do a C++ project. Unluckily, when my teacher gave me a C++ code, I got a Segmentation Fault (core dump) when I ran it on my Ubuntu, ...
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VLC will not launch 15.10
As a relative noob to linux,I will need some detailed help on how to fix this issue.
When I try to launch VLC in Terminal, it shows :
yohji@htpc:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (...
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Segmentation fault (core dumped) - GIMP
Running 15.10 / 32bit
I tried to install Gimp via PPA / with sudo apt-get install gimp and with Software center too. Each time after I uninstalled gimp, I used Purge command. And each time i tried to ...
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Segmentation fault when attempting to install drive using Go
I am trying to install drive on my Ubuntu 14.04 from the command line. I have installed Go and Git as the instructions in the link said, but whenever I try to run the command
$ go get -u github.com/...
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Fault [ 0.587243 ] etc. ? Ubuntu 14.04
Just before Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS starts up a black screen appears with the text:
[ 0.587243 ] ACPI PCC Probe failed.
It is a notebook with UEFI Bios 2013.
How can I solve this problem please?
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apt & aptitude segfault every time
Suddenly aptitude and apt are both bombing with segfaults; it seems to be related to the cache, as in aptitude I see the message "loading cache" before it dies:
Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying..
From apt-...
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Segmentation fault in aptitude
On our 64 bit Lubuntu 14.04 system, aptitude has started crashing with a bunch of scrolling errors, ending up with a seg fault.
*** Error in `aptitude': free(): invalid next size (fast): ...
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Segmentation fault while running some ubuntu specific apps like nautilus, unity-control-center, etc
running nautilus from the terminal the following errors are returned:
compro@Inspiron-3543:~/.learn_unix$ nautilus &
[1] 7326
compro@Inspiron-3543:~/.learn_unix$
(nautilus:7326): Gtk-WARNING **: ...
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nam error : Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I'm trying to use ns2 in ubuntu 14.04 (32 bit). But I'm having a great trouble using nam
I can use ns2 command easily
$ ns example.tcl
But the nam is not working properly. On executing the below ...
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Unable to update kernel
I kept getting a kernel panic (not syncing. No init found) trying to boot my Ubuntu Server, so I burned the latest version of Ubuntu Server to a CD and booted (used option boot to fist disk) to try ...
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Some Steam games won't start up, gameoverlayrenderer.so error [closed]
I'm using an Intel HD Graphics card.
For the last few days, for an unknown reason, some Steam games won't start up, including Half-Life and Garry's Mod.
Here's the shell output with Half-Life:
Game ...
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14.04.2 apt-get: segfault: error 4 in libstdc++.so.6.0.19
I'm fairly new to Linux so please forgive some ignorance!
I've installed 14.04.2 Server 3 times now on a Dell Poweredge C6220.
Every time the installation appears to complete without error yet as ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 freezes after kernel update [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 14.04. After having updated the system to kernel 3.13.0-49-generic, I re-booted and now everything freezes! I cannot log in. (Keyboard and mouse do not work as well)
I found this line ...
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Program[Digikam] chooses wrong qt lib and crashes
I run Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. Digikam used to work but recently stopped working.
I was wondering if someone could help me work a way to resolve this issue.
I've had a response from the Digikam mailing ...
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Samba 4.1.6 Segfaults on 14.04 LTS
My Samba network folder disconnects on my Windows 7 boxes whenever I use Windows Explorer to open a file. The folder icons grey out for a minute or so, before becoming available again. However the the ...
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apt-get segmentation fault (segfault at libapt-pkg)
Since this morning, I couldn't run apt-get and having no idea why. This is what I did so far:
# apt-get update
(updating list)
Fetched 2.797 kB in 7s (363 kB/s)
Segmentation faults... 33%
# apt-get ...
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After using another amd card PC won't boot throwing exceptions in Xorg.0.log
I wanted to test my second AMD card that I have (270X Gigabyte) instead of my current (280X Gigabyte) and after plugging it in the PCIE port and powering on the machine I got a 'blinking beacon' and ...
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Segfaults and "Read-only filesystem" after a dist-upgrade
After running an apt-get dist-upgrade on my 14.04 home server, it seems like something may have gone wrong which has left the box unusable.
It all started with this:
Preparing to unpack .../linux-...
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CTRL, ALT, SHIFT or right-click kills some windows
For the last few days, certain desktop applications have started dying whenever the Ctrl, Alt or Shift keys are pressed, or the GUI is right-clicked. This happens on keydown/mousedown.
For example, ...
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Emerald crashes frequently
I installed Lubuntu 14.10, then Compiz as window and composite manager, then Emerald from ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 as window decorator. It works nicely, but emerald crashes very often. The window ...
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mpd crashes on database update
Mpd (latest version from repositories, Ubuntu 14.10) crashes when refreshing the database.
At first it crashed on every m4a file, even with the necessary libraries (libmad0) installed and up to date.
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