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  • noun Plural form of segfault.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of segfault.

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  • #8 0x000000000041e236 in spawnXTerm (xw = 0x6919d0) at .. / main. c: 3245 i've got i386 ubuntu 8.04 beta with all updates, but xterm segfaults too: exe@hpc: ~$ xterm exe@hpc: ~$ xterm exe@hpc: ~$ xterm exe@hpc: ~$ xterm

    Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog 2008

  • I also must say that with each alpha release Boxee becomes more and more stable (at least on my system) – I was having quite a few segfaults for a while, but it seems to be running very smoothly – and it plays just about any file format I throw at it.

    Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee? 2009

  • Basically tons of segfaults in the apache2 log showed up after moving from Gentoo to Ubuntu.

    UFies.org: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • Random segfaults for no apparent reason have often been the result of poor heatsink installation, gunk buildup in heatsink fins, fans slowing with age, and any other thing that can cause a CPU to heat up.

    Server upgrade is coming soon « Climate Audit 2007

  • Unfortunately, the Skype version is only 1.2.0.18, and it does not work well with arts : That is, using artsdsp it crashes with segfaults whenever I start even a chat, let alone a phone call.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Egon Willighagen 2006

  • The segfaults I think are because of either input text files that are too big or have characters in them that are unpronounceable- so I chopped up the novel with split it probuces files terminated with aa,ab,ac..., hand edited out '#' separators, and convert with text2wave:

    Text to speech- make your own audio books patternjuggler 2005

  • The segfaults I think are because of either input text files that are too big or have characters in them that are unpronounceable- so I chopped up the novel with split it probuces files terminated with aa,ab,ac..., hand edited out '#' separators, and convert with text2wave:

    Archive 2005-01-23 patternjuggler 2005

  • Linus Torvalds only has to enter a room, and every Windows computer in it segfaults instantly.

    KDE-Look.org Content 2010

  • I installed a restricted driver (requested by that restricted drivers popup thing), but after a few minutes idling, the OS segfaults, kills Xorg (!) and takes me to a prompt.

    LinuxQuestions.org Coburn64 2010

  • As far as i know, segfaults may be handled intercepting the SIGSEGV signal, but this produces an undefined behavior.

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community gianks 2010

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