More rtld trouble (was: Re: Another vlc 2.0.3 update ... )

[Juergen Lock]

[removed kan and kib from Cc as this is now not about rtld in fact]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:11:09PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi kib, kan, sorry to bother you again but... :)
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:53:55PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> > On 13.08.2012 21:24 (UTC+2), Rainer Hurling wrote:
> > > On 13.08.2012 19:45 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 07:34:45AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> [...]
> > >> I just posted the workaround for that crash:
> > >>
> > >>     http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-2.0.3-009.patch
> > >
> > > Thanks for the newest patch! The change from
> > > sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) to LINE_MAX + 1 works nice here. No core
> > > dumps any more and sound via pulseaudio is working again :)
> > >
> > >>>>    I'll Cc the pulseaudio port maintainers (gnome@), maybe they have
> > >>>> an idea?
> > >>>
> > >>> Did you forgot to Cc gnome@ (even on the other thread)?
> > >>>
> > >>   Yeah, I manually forwarded the mail when I noticed.
> > >>>
> > >>> I tried out a little bit the build without pulseaudio enabled. It seems
> > >>> to me, that the sound of vlc is somewhat noisy or dirty, especially for
> > >>> parts with more dynamics. This scratchy noise grows up when gain control
> > >>> comes over 100% (up to 200% is possible). Can anyone confirm this?
> > >>>
> > >>   I haven't noticed that here, maybe your soundcard is clipping etc
> > >> due to too high mixer levels?
> > >
> > > Hmm, possible, but unlikely. This worked pretty good with version 1.1.13
> > > and as I wrote, gain control was set in the middle (100%). But now, with
> > > pulseaudio enabled again, there is not problem with damaged sound
> > > quality any more.
> > >
Btw it's still possible that different mixer items cause different
clipping etc, for example vol 100 and pcm low sounds worse than
vol 75 and pcm higher, etc.  (Maybe pulseaudio does that...?)

> > >>> And last but not least: When I deinstall vlc I get the following
> > >>> message:
> > >>> pkg_delete: '/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat' fails original MD5
> > >>> checksum - deleted anyway.
> > >>>
> > >>   That's the file whose generating crashed when building with the old
> > >> vlc still installed, maybe it's regenerated at runtime otherwise?
> > >
> > > No, it also fails original MD5 checksum with deinstall/reinstall within
> > > 2.0.3.
> > >
> > >>> Thanks again for your work on this port.
> > >>> Rainer
> > >>
> > >>   You're welcome! :)
> > >>     Juergen
> > 
> > I just found two other problems, which at least occur on my system 
> > (10.0-CURRENT amd64):
> > 
> > (1) With option NOTIFY enabled I am able to build, but not to install 
> > vlc. It gives me:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > (2) Option PROJM builds and installs, but crashes when I try to start it 
> > within vlc:
> > 
> > No Textures Loaded from /usr/local/share/projectM/textures
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > As far as I can see, there is no path to projectM/textures (installed 
> > from libprojectM) on FreeBSD, but to projectM/presets?
> > 
>  I'll have to look at that next...
> > 
Hmm, cannot seem to reproduce this one, sorry.  (Or do I have to do
something special in vlc to activate it?  I just tried playing a
video file...)

> > Sorry for this late response, but before I was not able to run vlc 
> > because of the pulseaudio crashing.
> 
>  Thanx,
> 	Juergen