I have a strange problem that causes Nautilus to crash: When Dropbox is active and I click (even just once) on the Dropbox folder in my Home folder Nautilus crashes. When I turn it on again it shows me hidden files and still crushes if I try to open the Dropbox folder again. Everything works … Read more
I’ve managed to build and install (using checkinstall) an GNU Emacs 25.1 Debian package on 16.04, but on 16.10 for some unknown reason the compilation fails (at the make stage) giving the truncated output: Loading language/czech… Loading language/slovak… Loading language/romanian… Loading language/greek… Loading language/hebrew… Loading international/cp51932… Loading international/eucjp-ms… Loading language/japanese… Loading language/korean… Loading language/lao… Loading … Read more
I have an upstart job that occasionally crashes with a segmentation fault, and I have a few questions about core dumps. First, should I add a stanza: limit core unlimited unlimited Is there a downside to allowing unlimited core sizes? Would a finite limit be better? Second, where will the core file go? If the … Read more
My VLC player crashes every time I’m trying to open any video file. Removing/purging vlc, and reinstalling it does not change anything. I recently upgraded my distro to 20.04 from 19.10. I never had this problem on any other operating system before. I also tried to reinstall the whole operating system from scratch (because I … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Ask Ubuntu. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question I’m using an Intel HD Graphics card. For the last few days, for an unknown reason, some Steam games won’t start up, including … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Ask Ubuntu. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question I cannot open the system settings anymore. unity-control-center (unity-control-center:23772): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion ‘string != NULL’ failed Segmentation fault (core dumped) Answer AttributionSource … Read more
In Ubuntu I have faced the segmentation fault error many times. What is a segmentation fault and when does it occur? Answer An error saying segmentation fault (or segfault, or SIGSEGV) in Ubuntu and other Unix-like operating systems, or saying general protection fault in Windows, is when a program attempts to access a part of … Read more
