[Novalug] Stand me in the corner.. I've been bad

[Kevin Dwyer]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:15:32PM -0400, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> Ed James
> > Meaning, time to run fsck or something similar?
> 
> > Quoting Michael Stone <mstone at mathom.us>:
> 
> >> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:55:50PM -0400, Palmer wrote:
> >>> (that is, when its not responding with a "segmentation
> >>> fault" error)
> 
> >> Makes me think you've got a corrupted disk.
> 
> I've seen more than a few "Segmentation faults" and "Bus
> errors" on healthy machines.

Yes but segfaults during routine operation of file/disk manipulation
tools is different from segfaults in firefox.  It does at least hint at
I/O errors that the tool can't deal with.

-kpd