segmentation fault everywhere

[Eric Lemoine]

> Sounds like ram.  Unfortunately you have an ibook so
> memtest86 isn't available.  But, I believe apple ships a
> diagnostic cd that you can boot off of.  Then run the
> extended test.  That may not show the problem as its not as
> rigorous as memtest.  If it doesn't you probably have 2
> sticks of ram.  The fact that your getting segfaults with
> such low ram usage says to me its the first stick.  The bad
> news is that usually the fist stick is soldered onto the
> board.  You may try removing the second stick and see if the
> problem continues.  You may get lucky and its that stick and
> you can easily replace it.
>
> If problems consist, try a livecd and see if it suffers the
> same problem.  I'm pretty sure it will, but might as well
> rule out the install as a last resort before calling up
> apple care (I hope you still have apple care).  And I
> wouldn't worry about apple care not liking Ubuntu, they are
> pretty indifferent to it, but do take backups before you
> send your computer off.  My ibook can boot as a usb hard
> disk so that probably the best way to get backups.  I hope
> things work out.

Thanks a lot for this analysis!

I just tried the edgy livecd and everything seems to be running fine:
my apt-* commands do not segfault. I guess my hard drive partitions
have been corrupted...


-- 
Eric