[Pw_forum] segmentation fault

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at nest.sns.it
Fri Jun 24 09:29:36 CEST 2005


On Friday 24 June 2005 08:43, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> JP> forrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred
> JP>
> JP> why is this msg appearing and how to get rid of it?
>
> the technical reason for this message is that your job has
> tried to write into an address space region that was set
> read-only. this can happen because of a number of reasons.
>
> 1.) you have a bad error in your input (most frequent reason).
> 2.) your compiler has miscompiled the binary.
> 3.) your hardware has a faulty memory module.
> 4.) you have found a bug in the code.

5.) too much memory required
6.) machine-specific compiler optimization flags or mathematical 
libraries are incompatible with your hardware

Paolo

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