From: "Nebojsa Subanovic" nebojsa.subanovic[makni on 11 Dec 2009 08:20 Hi folks! I have OpenSuse 11.1, Portland Group fortran pgilinux904 and have a problem in execution of one script included in shell. Here's the output when this script stops to work: ../new_prep.sh: line 92: 7514 Segmentation fault ../exe/initbc.exe > initbc.out value of err is 139 BAILING OUT BECAUSE SOMETHING FAILED!!!!!!!!! Any idea? Thanks! Nebojsa __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4678 (20091211) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
From: Van Chocstraw on 11 Dec 2009 09:12 On 12/11/2009 08:20 AM, Nebojsa Subanovic wrote: > Hi folks! > I have OpenSuse 11.1, Portland Group fortran pgilinux904 and have a problem > in execution of one script included in shell. > Here's the output when this script stops to work: > > ./new_prep.sh: line 92: 7514 Segmentation fault ../exe/initbc.exe > > initbc.out > value of err is 139 > BAILING OUT BECAUSE SOMETHING FAILED!!!!!!!!! > > Any idea? Thanks! > > Nebojsa > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4678 (20091211) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > Nobody really knows what a segmentation fault is. They should change the error message to something understandable.
From: Ulick Magee on 11 Dec 2009 09:17 Van Chocstraw wrote: >> > Nobody really knows what a segmentation fault is. They should change the > error message to something understandable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org
From: Van Chocstraw on 11 Dec 2009 17:46 Ulick Magee wrote: > Van Chocstraw wrote: >>> >> Nobody really knows what a segmentation fault is. They should change the >> error message to something understandable. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault > > > So why would a program that was running fine all of a sudden start tromping on protected memory such as I had with Firefox? Only reinstalling the OS fixed this problem.
From: Paul J Gans on 11 Dec 2009 20:58
Van Chocstraw <boobooililililil(a)roadrunner.com> wrote: >Ulick Magee wrote: >> Van Chocstraw wrote: >>>> >>> Nobody really knows what a segmentation fault is. They should change the >>> error message to something understandable. >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault >> >> >> >So why would a program that was running fine all of a sudden start >tromping on protected memory such as I had with Firefox? Only >reinstalling the OS fixed this problem. If you are certain the problem was in that script, I'd wager that something in that script or in a program binary invoked by that script suffered from a bit of bit rot. To suspect just what program is involved, you'd have to know just what was being invoked. -- --- Paul J. Gans |