Strange segfaults from basic commands

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Usually segfaulting that often would be either some sort of hardware
failure or a kernel issue. Perhaps the wrong kernel for your
architecture was installed.

Mike

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:42:22AM -0500, Steve Kratz wrote:
> Something happened to a Dapper server this weekend (I wasn't able to
> track things down at all...). Here's the symptoms:
> 
> Several basic commands (df, mkdir to name two of them) immediately
> display a segfault when executing them. e2fsck shows no corruption on
> the root (/) drive. I scp'd a copy of mkdir from another Dapper box,
> still segfaulted.
> 
> The box has no outside access from the internet, so I doubt any security
> breaches happened. All updates were run on it. mkdir appears to be
> critical on startup (init.d/rc has mkdir /var/network, etc., so it would
> boot with no network access at all!)
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> (The server was mission-critical, so I had to re-install the OS quickly
> so our database could continue running)
> 
> 

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