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Unable to load /proc on Linux red hat 9. Getting segmentation fault.

I am having problems with my Linux server. I was getting a segmentation fault when I was trying to mount a mapped folder from a windows 2003 server. I kept getting a segmentation fault error. Well I rebooted the system and now I cannot get in. i can only get into single user mode as well as emergency mode. I do not know what to do. most of the info I am getting is to reinstall the O/S. I need to see what else I can do before this. Please help me ASAP.

sciwriter

The segmentation fault error can be caused by many things -- bad RAM, wrong drivers, bad TCP stack, in general it simply means a memory error has occurred that ususally relate to the wrong drivers for the wrong devices, not necesarily physical ram. Read the first dozen or so here, it is a lot, but there are a lot of possibiliites too. So check some of these out, while waiting for others to respond ...

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=linux+segmentation+fault+error+windows+share&btnG=Search

kiranghag

also check for bad disks...

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I have ran fsck on all the disks and they are fine. I am thinking the partitions are bad. I have replaced the ram and other components. I will check the link provided

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kiranghag

rather than fsck, i would recommend you to run manufacturer's utility on disk to check the entire surface. . and since those work above partition and filesystems,they often catch errors better

as sciwriter suggested, this often causes due to bad ram or bad disk (usually in the swap area)