Re: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
- From: Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>
- To: Ralf Weidemann <finc01 dx1 hrz uni-dortmund de>
- cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:34:13 -0500 (CDT)
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Ralf Weidemann wrote:
> What does this error message mean ?
It means that the application has accessed memory it was not supposed to
access, so the operating system shut it down. It can be caused by many
things.
Most likely, if you're seeing it for all applications, it's caused by a
mismatch between the libraries being used at runtime and the libraries
your applications were compiled with. For example, if you download a new
gnome-libs but don't recompile your applications, they will often start
segfaulting. Basically whenever you rebuild one of the libraries you also
have to rebuild everything below it in the list:
glib
gtk+
imlib
gnome-libs
applications
There could be another problem, and a segfault is often simply a bug in a
program. But if it's happening to all the apps I'd bet on the above.
Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp
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