From: Sakari Aaltonen (sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi)
Date: 06/08/92


From: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen)
Subject: My First Segmentation Fault
Date: 8 Jun 1992 22:43:21 GMT

I've had a basic Linux 0.96a running on a Toshiba T5100 for a few days now.
Trying to move on to big things, I downloaded gcc-2.11c.lib.tar.Z, a file
of about 1.2Mbytes. When I say

tar zxvf gcc-2.11c.lib.tar.Z

Linux says "Segmentation fault" and the file stays as .tar.Z type. There is
no crash; tar just doesn't its thing.

Does anybody have an explanation or a cure? The biggest file tar has handled
this far was gcc-2.11c.misc.tar.Z, about 1Mbyte. The current total is about
10Mbytes. (I transfer files with mcopy; I tried rawrite with the offending
file, but it didn't help.)

After the "Loading..." message, Linux reports 681984 bytes free space and
Free mem: 2621440 bytes.

Oh yes: how does one add a new user?

Thank you in advance,
s.a

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Sakari Aaltonen                             Helsinki University of Technology
Email: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi
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