From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 18:53:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED11437B41C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:53:25 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: segmentation fault Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:53:20 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3C3CFF6C.F21955F6@yahoo.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <3C3CFF6C.F21955F6@yahoo.com.hk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <01dff2553020a12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message