Segment Violation signal when using ELM program

[Tom Murillo_2]

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

[Pedro Sousa]

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.

[Pedro Sousa · Accepted solution]

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

[Tom Murillo_2]

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