What's a 'segmentation fault'?

[chris31_80]

Is this sort of like a critical error or illegal operation? I got one yesterday while I was in Netscape. Netscape wouldn't load a fscking webpage--it would display a page in all gray, and then act as if it were finished. I then went to the terminal and checked ps -a to see what was running. The terminal responded with 'segmentation fault'.

I killed both the terminal and Netscape and it went away. Any ideas?

[Craig McPherson]

Netscape crashes. A lot. There's nothing you can do about it. The problem you described plagues me all the time. There's nothing that can be done about it other than closing Netscape then kill -9'ing it.

You could use Mozilla instead. Mozilla still doesn't have a few features that I'd really like (such as rendering web pages correctly), but it's much more stable.

[Radar]

My undestanding of a seg fault is when a program misbehaves and tries to access memory beyond what it should. That is probably oversimplified.

[MBMarduk]

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/faq/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq02.008.htp

[MBMarduk]

And if that ain't it THEN I DON'T FSCKING KNOW IT, SUE ME FOR HELPING.

[Derango]

Originally posted by MBMarduk:
<STRONG>And if that ain't it THEN I DON'T FSCKING KNOW IT, SUE ME FOR HELPING.</STRONG>

Uhh....are you ok?

[Shadoglare]

I miss the Guru Meditation Error :D

[MBMarduk]

Originally posted by Derango:
<STRONG>Uhh....are you ok?</STRONG>

No I was not. :mad:
Sorry, Baaad night. :o