Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

From: Brian John (brianjohn_at_fusemail.com)
Date: 10/05/05

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    To: Brian John <brianjohn@fusemail.com>
    
    

    Brian John wrote:

    > David Kirchner wrote:
    >
    >> On 10/4/05, Brian John <brianjohn@fusemail.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>> It probably is. However, I'm not sure how to go about figuring out
    >>> which one of these dependencies it is, let alone how to fix it. Could
    >>> you help us troubleshoot this? BTW, I used portmanager to upgrade
    >>> my ports.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >> I don't know if I can be much help, as I haven't used xine or vlc, or
    >> portmanager. What I would do in your case is run 'ktrace -i -d vlc'
    >> (along with whatever other arguments) to trace the process and its
    >> dependencies, and then run 'kdump' to view the trace (the output will
    >> be enormous). You might see something interesting near the end, like a
    >> file not found that it was expecting, or it opening a file just prior
    >> to dumping core. It may be possible the other programs would have the
    >> same last few lines.
    >>
    >> This is generic advice, I'm afraid, and may not even be valid in this
    >> case. But who knows.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > David,
    > Ok, I sent the logs to you but the list rejected it. I couldn't find
    > anything in there that looked useful. Could this possibly have
    > something to do with the video card I'm running? I'm running a Radeon
    > 9200 SE 256 MB.
    >
    > Ian,
    > What kind of card are you running?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > /Brian
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    Another note: just for the hell of it I installed xine and tried to run
    it directly --> it didn't crash! So maybe our problems aren't the same
    after all...

    /Brian
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