Iguleder wrote:(...)
musher0 wrote:Works ok here.
Are you sure about that?
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Hi, Iguleder.
Second take on this:
Have the other guys checked || defrag'ed their partitions recently? This
is not a WhineDose joke: defrag happens on Linux filesystems too;
more slowly, but it happens.
A partition with many scattered "extents" can provoke segfaults out of
nowhere. Defrag that /root/.packages folder, fsck that pupsave, and the
segfault error might just go away. It may not, but one should check the
possibility of disk fragmentation before starting to chop code. The PPM
process is disk-intensiive, it is more likely than other apps to divide the
files it uses in multiple "extents".
Any frequently used db presents a frag risk: a large opera bookmarks
file, for example. As well, most of the members on this thread are
developers and testers, which usually means heavy use of a partition.
My 2¢.
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While I'm on the subject, this is one thing I appreciate about LibrePup:
it does an fsck of the home partition at every boot, in addition to the
pfix=fsck option for the pupsave.
Keep in mind that even if your partition has a frag rate of 0.5%, which
means your fs is speedy and healthy, that 0.5% fragmentation may be
caused by
the big db file you're using all the time. A very tough
problem, that.
BFN.
musher0