Vlc services discovery (SAP) panics kernel
Jeremy Messenger
mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jul 10 03:13:12 UTC 2009
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:07:31 -0500, Mattia Rossi <mrossi at swin.edu.au>
wrote:
> I've tried to use vlc 1.0.0 (goldeneye) - it was also happening with
> previous versions.
> Every time I try SAP service discovery the system freezes.
>
> Trying on the command line gave me a Fatal error 12 message, page fault
> while in kernel mode.
>
> I've tried to reinstall all ports related to vlc (using portmaster), no
> changes.
>
> Wanted to reinstall all ports from scratch, but as kdelibs3 still
> doesn't have the latest working libusb2 patch included and kdegraphics4
> pulls in sane-backends which does not compile because of libusb2, I
> actually can't rebuild my system without patching around and stuff -
> which sucks.
The kdebase3 (you need to make sure you have latest -CURRENT) should be
fixed that was committed a few days ago. As for the sane-backends, I have
disabled USB support by default in -CURRENT for us can install KDE3 or
KDE4 (don't remember). I agree with you about that broke libusb2 is quiet
annoy, but we will get there.
Cheers,
Mezz
> Don't know if somebody else is experiencing the same problems... mostly
> the vlc one.
>
> Mat
>
> Btw.: no kernel dumps available.. seems that the instructions at
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
>
> do not work (for me).
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