xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

David Kirchner dpk at dpk.net
Tue Oct 4 18:55:20 PDT 2005


On 10/4/05, Brian John <brianjohn at 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.


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