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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:41:09 -0000
From:      "Graham Bentley" <admin@cpcnw.co.uk>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Seg Fault Action!
Message-ID:  <8B3B280688DC46E086A46A259FCCC079@main>
References:  <20081027184022.14D9D10656C1@hub.freebsd.org><op.ujqaapi3t4j7n6@3bsd.cpcnw.co.uk> <44y706qk9q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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> For one,
> make sure your ports are up-to-date with your installed ports tree
> before installing more ports.  

Yep, done that :)

> You can run the program under truss(1),
> which will help you figure out what kind of bad data is being passed
> to system calls (assuming that's where the failure is, but it's not
> unusual for that to be the case).  

OK will check out truss ....

> You can generate a crash dump of
> the program, and (you or someone else) can use a debugger to see where
> it was when it failed -- usually a strong hint.

Is that what a core dump is?

Thanks for replies :)



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