Subject: Re: bug#18350: /bin/cat segfault

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:36:38 -0600

David King wrote:
> king@cloud-laptop:~/workspace$ cat foo
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Problems such as these have sometimes occurred when the hardware has
started to fail.  Such as for failing memory or other hardware caused
problems.  I would run memtest on the system.  I would inspect kernel
logs for hardware errors.

Bob