On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 16:18, Bret Hughes wrote: > I have a fedora box that was upgraded from 7.1. After several days of > running fine, mozilla and up2date seg fault on launch sofar the only > ones that I have found that do. mplayer and xclock do not. a stacktrace > shows a mmap call failing. I have exited changed runlevels to 3 from 4 > ( we auto start a display app on runlevel 4) and I cannot figure out > what to do to fix it short of a reboot. I ran into mozilla segfaulting > as I was setting up this box and a reboot always fixed it and am > assuming that it will again. > > The machine is still in this state and I would like to know what I need > to at least capture enough information to allow the gurus to find the > bug. > <snip> Well, I wish I knew more about this stuff. I was copying about 150MB from one partition to another and everything started working again. Is there a feature of the vm that will clear all stuff from memory if a process needs a bunch of memory or something? I am assuming that for some reason the kernel could not allocate the memory that moz and up2date needed even though free showed memory available. I will keep an eye on this but since I can't easily replicate it, I will wait to file a bug. I cannot find anything in bugzilla that sounds like this issue. Has anyone else seen anything similar? Bret
