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About Segmentation Violations
Wondering what the Segmentation Violation error message means, and what you can do about it? Check out this excellent TID for the gory details.
On a Unix operating system such as Linux, a "segmentation violation" (also known as "signal 11", "SIGSEGV", "segmentation fault" or, abbreviated, "sig11" or "segfault") is a signal sent by the kernel to a process when the system has detected that the process was attempting to access a memory address that does not belong to it. Typically, this results in the offending process being terminated.
Background and common causes are discussed in more detail in this TID.
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It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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So, where's the TID?
Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 17 October 2008 - 5:22pm.
Thanks for the suggestion, but "...discussed in more detail in this TID" is not useful without a hyperlink to that document.
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Oops -- link is fixed now
Submitted by ssalgy on 18 October 2008 - 8:12am.
So sorry! What a difference a quote mark can make!
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