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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