On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 at 5:07pm, Cameron Showalter wrote > What I did was install the app (worked great), installed an sql interface to > the db (worked great). added some data to the db and posted sales. This is > where I have the continual problems with linux. as soon it starts the > posting, in another windows I did a ps -ef and got Segmentation fault, dmesg > produces the same error. top still works, but thats about it. now, from > experience, I know that if I reboot the system - I'll get many errors and > segmenation faults and then when the login comes back up where the name of > the server is will be () login: > I'm guessing there is going to be no way around reinstalling this box, but I > trying to remain hopeful that there is a better solution. I'd be strongly suspicious of bad hardware -- CPU, RAM, or motherboard most likely. Test 'em all, thoroughly. Swap components if you can. Run memtest86+, Dell's diagnostics, etc. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University