Troubleshooting Linux: Don't forget the obvious
Well I've been pulling my hair out for the past week or so trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with my little MythTV DVR box. I've been getting more and more crashes lately, which I assumed was due to some package incompatibility caused by my incessant "apt-get dist-upgrade" commands that I've been throwing at it in an attempt to keep current. I'd also had the misfortune of allowing my primary HD to fill up while installing packages, which may have corrupted my RPM database.
Last weekend, I did a full fsck (file system check) to make sure the HD was good. Everything checked out OK. Preparing for the worst, I dumped my mysql database out to the HD as an SQL file - or at least, I tried to.
Segmentation fault
