Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56701
Segmentation fault after installing just about any other program
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt) Description of problem: Installed j2re-1_3_1_01-linux-i386.bin per instructions. After rebooting, get segmentation fault when I open Nautius or just about anyother program. Upgraded to kernel 2.4.9-13, same problem Install OpenOffice 638C with either Gnome or KDE, with or without Java, same problem. All of these are after fresh re-install. I have reinstalled RH 7.2 about 20 times in the last week. Just about when I think everything is going, go to the next step, something else pops up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RH 7.2 2.Install any of the above problems 3.reboot 4.try to open Nautilus 5.segmentation fault Actual Results: As described above Expected Results: Would like to install OpenOffice and have it work, or anyother program for that matter and not have Linux Crash. Additional info: Have read several bugs on related segmentation faults in bugzilla and on the internet, seems to be a common problem, especially with RH Linux. Seems to be workarounds for some of them (one of which I tried and did not work) but no real fixes. Computer is Inspiron 8100 w/512 meg ram, 30 G hd, DVD-CDR, 3 Com PCMCIA modem, external USB Maxtor Harddrive. Also cannot get linuxconf to work. Comes up with command not recognized.
All other users seem to be able to install software - it's most likely an issue with bad hardware, or the like. In any case, can't be debugged since I can't reproduce it.