SegV's - 5.0.14D4 - Suse Enterprise Server 9 on Intel.

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Oct 13 16:30:22 PDT 2005


When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:01:31PM -0400,
Jerry Rains took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> We have been having problems with getting random SegV's.  I am working 
> with fPtech on them.  This email is to see if anyone else is having 
> these kind of problems and will help in tracking them down.
> 
> 1) Today we were importing an xml file that contained data to put into a 
> MEMO field.  At the very end of the process table we got a SegV when 
> EXIT was executed.  I found a 'memo' directory in the filepro file's 
> directory that had 600 permissions.  Changing the permissions to 700 
> stopped the SegV.
> 
> I have no idea why this directory was there.  None of the other filePro 
> files that we have that use MEMO's had one so I moved it to the /tmp/ 
> directory and everything still works fine.

This -is- linux, and as such you have a plethora of tools at your disposal.
So, what was revealed when you used strace to try and diagnose the fault
yourself?

mark->


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