What to do if a third party application segfaults or general protection faults?

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Issue

  • Segfault (segmentation fault) errors are seen for applications not provided by Red Hat.
Oct 25 00:00:00 <hostname> kernel: <process>[PID]: segfault at ffffffffb4001e72 rip 000000000041ff04 rsp 00007fff6d077640 error 4
  • Third party application segfaults/dies or does not start.
  • General protection fault errors are seen for applications not provided by Red Hat.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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