More rtld trouble

[Juergen Lock]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:40:14AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 13.08.2012 23:46 (UTC+1) schrieb 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...?)
> 
> OK, thanks for the hint. I will have a further look at mixer. There are 
> also some combinations like with kmix etc., that are not exactly 
> represented in mixer settings ...
> 
> >>>>>> 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...)
> 
> I have the problem with ProjectM when playing audio files and turn the 
> ProjectM visualizations on. It immediately crashes.
> 
Yes, I meanwhile found this too.  Maybe our projectm port version
is too old?

 Thanx,
	Juergen