xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

Brian John brianjohn at fusemail.com
Tue Oct 4 08:14:39 PDT 2005


I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc.
 Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does? 
If that gives a bus error as well then I think we might have the same
issue.  I haven't been able to find a solution to this yet...

/Brian

----- Original Message -----

> Hi,
> I went to play a video file today & with kaffeine and it crashed
when trying
> to open the file. I decided to do a portupgrade -fR kaffeine\* to
rebuild it
> and it's dependencies in the hope that would fix the problem, but it
made no
> difference.
> Then I tried running xine by itself and found it gave a bus error and core
> dumped every time I tried to start it (not opening a file or anything). The
> splash screen appears, then the GUI, then both close and in the xterm I
start
> it from, I just bus error.
>
> I've tried doing a portupgrade -f xine just in case, though it should have
> been re-built along with kaffeine. None of the above seems to fix the
> problem.
> I'm running FBSD 5.4-RELEASE p6 and my ports tree was updated last
night. Port
> versions are:
> kaffeine-0.7.1
> xine-0.99.4
>
>  Xine/Kaffeine used to work, evidently a recent portupgrade has broken it,
> though I'm not sure exactly when it last worked.
>
> Just hoping someone can suggest a fix!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ian
> gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
>
>


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