linux-kernel - Re: Strange error?

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:06:10 -0500
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange error?

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> This line showed up in my log a couple of hours ago, several minutes removed 
> from anything else I was doing at the time:
> 
> rarian-sk-get-c[31855]: segfault at 00000000 eip 00b7c153 esp bf9ddf0c error 4
> 
> The system acts and feels normal.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue to loan me?

I would ask the rarian developers:

http://rarian.freedesktop.org/

My barely-educated guess is that Gnome was doing a routine re-index of 
its help files and and the app got bored and decided to dereference a 
NULL pointer for fun.  Your desktop documentation index may be 
incomplete or corrupt.  Try not to panic.

	-- Chris
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