Error 139

Stefan Hornburg (racke@gundel.han.de)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:29:47 +0200


gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Darrell Burkey wrote:
> > After much reading and learning I managed to get mgetty working great. Today
> > I upgraded from RedHat 5 to 5.1 and had the usual hiccups which weren't too
> > hard to solve but I can't figure out what is keeping my faxes from going
> > out.
> > 
> > Sendfax writes the following error in its' log and none of the other logs
> > show anything:
> > execute: /usr/sbin/sendfax -l ttyS2 62514651 f1.g3
> > [6] Exit status: 139( )
> > Transmission Error( )
> 
> Hard to say.  I have received one report with "139" before, but when
> asking for details, nothing came back.
> 

make uses the following convention to report the exit state. If a program
died by a signal, the exit state reported is 128 + signal number, so 139
resolves to a segmentation fault (memory problems !?). The calling program
may use the same convention.

Ciao
		Racke
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