Evan (eread@netaccess.co.nz)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:04:40 +1200
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> Evan wrote:
> >
> > If I run a KDE app from the command line and, after quitting mysteriously it
> > tells me:
> >
> > "segmentation fault (core dumped)"
> >
> > what does this mean (sounds bad ;).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> Means there was a good 'ol memory access problem, many times caused by
> dereferencing a null pointer. The kernel will then dump the core (the
> processes' memory image), a hold over from the Un*x when it was possible
> to look at the core and determine what went wrong - these days 10MB is a
> fair bit more to look at than the 4k of yore.
>
> What program was it?
Hehehe.... It was KXicq.... I posted on a KDE mailling list because I felt it
more appropriate. But anyways, it loads up, I enter in my details and then it
bombs out.
I tried deleting the kxicqrc config file to see if that would help. It
doesn't.
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