Segmentation fault after battery ran out of power in active programs

harsha · 2014-06-04 20:25:55

Hi, I left my laptop on as I went to shower, and the battery died in that time. I had Steam and Google-Chrome running at the time, and those programs, along with Chromium, will no longer start properly.

When I try to start them up with the Terminal, it says that there is a Segmentation fault (core dumped). I assume that this is due to an abnormal shutdown and there wasn't a Sync, but I don't know how to fix it.

Please mention if there is specific information you would like me to post if it is needed. Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!

clfarron4 · 2014-06-04 21:47:15

Does anything show up in the system journal after the segfaults?

harsha · 2014-06-05 00:46:22

Yeah it looks like things are being added right after a segfault.

I'm using "debugfs" with the "logdump" command. Please tell me if that's not what I should be looking at, I've never tried using the system journal before.

clfarron4 · 2014-06-05 12:04:13

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Journal

Trilby · 2014-06-05 12:21:33

Unless you were running as root, the only data that could have been open for writing by those programs was your users local configuration. If you have another user account on the machine it might be worthwhile to verify that that these work for other accounts.

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#1 2014-06-04 20:25:55

Segmentation fault after battery ran out of power in active programs

#2 2014-06-04 21:47:15

Re: Segmentation fault after battery ran out of power in active programs

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