segfault causes system freeze

[steve]

Le 22-11-2018, à 02:09:46 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway a écrit :

>On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 07:51:48 +0100, steve wrote:
>> No. If switch to another console, and launch a 'ls' for example, the
>> cursor goes to the line and then nothing happens. Ctlr-x doesn't do
>> anything. Opening a new one and launching htop for example freeze the
>> terminal. But was it funny, is that I can firefox still works as
>> expected. At this stage I normally shutdown the computer physically.
>
>Hmmm, interesting... the system is not truely locked up, but perhaps
>it's now unable to launch new processes, or something like that.  (It
>would be interesting to know if an instance of "htop" running on another
>console continues keep running even after the segfault, for example.)

I'll leave an htop running just in case.


>[...]
>> No, nothing in syslog I think.
>
>(It might be worth double-checking to make sure -- if for example [Byour
>follow-on attempts to run "ls" and "htop" also show up as segfaults in
>the log, that would certainly tell you something.)

Double checked and I'm pretty sure there is nothing else.

>> Yes, I think it might be a hardware problem triggered by a mutt
>> segfault. Still looking around.
>
>(The distinction may not matter in the end, but off hand I'd suspect the
>hardware fault [or whatever it is] is causing both the mutt segfault and
>the other symptoms you are seeing.)

It's really only mutt (or neomutt…) that triggers the problem, no other
program.

>Anyway, good luck tracking it down...

Thank you, I hope I can succeed (with your and Jörg nice help).

Best,
Steve