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# sk153112 - "Segmentation Fault" error while running cpview or other random commands

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk153112 |
| Date Created | 2019-05-07 |
| Last Modified | 2023-11-22 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- * "`Segmentation Fault`" error when running `cpview` or other random commands:   

  `[Expert@GW:0]# cpview`  
  `
  /bin/cpview_start.sh: line 386: 27095 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $CPDIR/bin/cpview $@ `  

  `

  DATE TIME GW kernel: sed[8238]: segfault at 0000000000000034 rip 000000000804fd43 rsp 00000000ffe402d0 error 4`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: fwboot[11283]: segfault at 00000000344d5968 rip 00000000085607a5 rsp 00000000ffc09a50 error 4`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: corename = |/etc/coredump/compress.sh /var/log/dump/usermode/fwboot.11283.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[0] = /etc/coredump/compress.sh`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[1] = /var/log/dump/usermode/fwboot.11283.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: sed[11294]: segfault at 0000000000000034 rip 000000000804fd43 rsp 00000000ffd60600 error 4`   

* The `var/log/messages` file shows:   

  `DATE TIME GW kernel: DAService[20954]: segfault at 00000000805d5f1c rip 00000000f7db3ff3 rsp 00000000ffae2fd4 error 4`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: corename = |/etc/coredump/compress.sh /var/log/dump/usermode/DAService.20954.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[0] = /etc/coredump/compress.sh`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[1] = /var/log/dump/usermode/DAService.20954.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: DAService[20980]: segfault at 00000000805d5f1c rip 00000000f7d8eff3 rsp 00000000ffce77d4 error 4`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: corename = |/etc/coredump/compress.sh /var/log/dump/usermode/DAService.20980.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[0] = /etc/coredump/compress.sh`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: do_coredump: argv_arr[1] = /var/log/dump/usermode/DAService.20980.core`  
  `
  DATE TIME GW kernel: DAService[21006]: segfault at 00000000805d5f1c rip 00000000f7e4fff3 rsp 00000000ffeb7c54 error 4
  ...`

## Cause

The *fwmultik_sync_processing_enabled* (synchronous dequeue feature) kernel parameter is enabled. This limits the CPU to handle fewer stack functions simultaneously..

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