topic Re: Segment Violation signal when using ELM program in Operating System - HP-UX

Segment Violation signal when using ELM program

Tom Murillo_2 — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 16:01:11 GMT

Hi there...

I have a problem on HP-UP 11.0 E55 Server. When I attempt to enter ELM program in shell and it freezes as following:

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$ elm

Segment Violation signal!

k1Bs1Cs1Ds1Gs1H (freeze)

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I am not sure why I screwed up this. I think I cleaned up /tmp and /var/tmp. It should not affect anything. However, I played and installed a new program called fetchmail from http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xceab53921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

and believe that it may screwed up the elm program. I think I am stuck somewhere in this kind of problem. Can you guys help me out?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Tom

Re: Segment Violation signal when using ELM program

Pedro Sousa — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 16:22:55 GMT

Hi Tom!
Normally, this message is related to terminal emulation! Maybe elm is having problems writing to your terminal.
Change your TERM value, or try another terminal.

good luck.

Re: Segment Violation signal when using ELM program

Pedro Sousa — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 16:29:50 GMT

Hi Again.
don't forget to check your network config.
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: Segment Violation signal when using ELM program

Tom Murillo_2 — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 16:48:55 GMT

Hi Pedro,

Thanks for your quick response. You know, at first, I jumped to console under root account and it says:

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(same message above)

Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!
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Therefore, I don't think the problem is related to terminal itself.

But, you mentioned to check three files and I found out a corrupt file on /etc/hosts file. I restored it from #hosts and it works great now. I did not realize that host file has the affect to ELM program. Thanks for your help.

Tom