Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:53:20 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: segmentation fault Message-ID: <01dff2553020a12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3CFF6C.F21955F6@yahoo.com.hk> References: <3C3CFF6C.F21955F6@yahoo.com.hk>
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On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:41 pm, adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk wrote:
> Hello
>
> What is segmentation fault?
>
> I got the log message 'getty segmentation fault'?
>
> What's wrong?
"It's broken."
It means that the program is dereferencing a pointer to invalid memory.
This could be caused by just about anything, so it really doesn't tell you
anything more than "it's broken" unless you know something more.
Getty is the terminal handler program, if that helps.
>
> Thank you
>
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