Segmentation fault

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A segmentation fault (often called segfault) emerges when a program tries to access a code segment that it is not allowed to access.

Sometimes, Bro does such evil things too or is told to do so. This page is dedicated to situations where segmentation faults occur and how to deal with them.

What to do when I get a segmentation fault?

• Delete your .state/ directory, it may contain corrupt data because you killed Bro the hard way (^C) when it wrote out persistent data to it's state file.
• Update to the current version of Bro. Versions prior to 1.1 suffered from the problem that a non exististent file after the -r command line option caused a segfault.

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault