How to fix "Segmentation fault"

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 19/03/2008, David Nguyen <DNguyen at dallascounty.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, it's about 20G but I don't have this issue running on our lab server
> which is also red hat enterprise 4.  I wonder what's missing or wrong on
> this troubled server and need to find the fixes.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> >>> bill at magicdigits.com 03/19/08 4:59 PM >>>
>
> Any chance the file size >2Gb? If so, then you'd have to pipe the project
> through something like dd.
>
> # cat coldbackup.tar|compress|dd of=coldbackup.tar.Z    or syntactically
> correct equivalent for instance.
>
> Bill Watson
> bill at magicdigits.com
>
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> Subject: How to fix "Segmentation fault"
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I run compress command on Red hat enterprise 3, I receive  "Segmentation
> fault" error while running compress command then it stops compressing the
> file.  Does someone know what causes this error and how to fix it?
>
> [1]+  Segmentation fault      nohup compress -f coldbackup.tar
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

What is your maximum file size limit set to ("ulimit -f -H" and "ulimit -f
-S")?

Kind regards,

Herta
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