Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10011
Segmentation Faults and Core Dump from X
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:54 EDT
Installation support told me to report this as a bug. While running some small Perl/Tk apps, I am getting repeated Segmentation Faults and Core Dumps. These apps do not have problems on Irix, Solaris, or Win98. Though the crash is sort of random, I can get it to repeat easy. The /var/log/messages is reported the following snippet about the exact same time as the seg fault: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22 last message repeated 29 times modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 last message repeated 19 times The 'last ... times' repeats again and again with a different repeat count. Running 6.1, on Dell Latitude CPi. Everything else is working fine, except the GNOME desktop which core dumps a lot so I switched to KDE several weeks ago. Thanks for the help.
The first is a complaint about /dev/hdc (caused by magicdev or automount, perhaps, looking for disks to mount), the second message is a PPP thing. Neither of these are relevant. What is dumping core - your apps or X? My guess is bugs in either perl/Tk and/or your apps.
Closed - I assume it works in the current release. Reopen if not.