[TAG] segmentation fault

[Mike Orr]

Jason Creighton wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:25:19AM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
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>>Run "df" and make sure you aren't running out of disk space.  Sometimes 
>>a full disk causes seemingly-unrelated errors.
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>Hmmm...how *could* those be related? The only thing I can think of is
>lazy C programmers thinking "write() can't fail", but I can't see how
>that would lead to a segfault. (On-disk data corruption, yes, much
>head-scratching, yes, hard to find bugs, yes, but it shouldn't effect
>cause the program to segfault.)
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I'm not sure I specifically got a segfault, but the last time my disk 
filled up, the first indication was that some program wouldn't start.  
No "disk full" message or anything.  After ruling out library problems 
from my last upgrades, I finally ran df and realized the disk was full.  
The culprit turned about to be a backup program that wasn't deleting its 
temporary files properly, so they just stacked up day after day, at 120 
MB a pop.




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