Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 02:37:45 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca> To: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal daemon, and most a/v apps core dump after upgrade to 6.2 Message-ID: <20070514053745.GE1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <200705132242.17261.lane@joeandlane.com> References: <200705132242.17261.lane@joeandlane.com>
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On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 22:42:17 -0500, Lane wrote: > I just upgraded to FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, after running 5.3 for years. > > My primary reason for upgrading was to take advantage of new features in xine > and mplayer, and to get flash functionality out > of /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin? > > Maybe I shoulda waited? > > Now I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" when I try to run xine, vlc, or > mplayer. Funny thing, though, is that kmplayer (from KDE 3.5.6) works. Only > when kmplayer starts up it immediately runs mplayer in a second window (not > the kmplayer window) and it runs fine! When I close kmplayer, mplayer > closes, too (uh ... duh!). However, I used to be able to use kmplayer's > ability to capture an mms:// stream via a web page, and that is now gone. > > I'm not sure if it is relevant, but hald also crashes with "Segmentation fault > (core dumped)" when I run it (on boot or manually) > from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald > > Another thing I see is that artsd consumes 90-98% CPU (on dual-core system), > yet kde thinks it can't start the sound system (even though sound works from > audio cd's and videos played via kmplayer). KDE tries repeatedly to start > the sound system, and launches a new artsd process for each try .... > > I recognize that this is mosly KDE stuff, and much of these rely > upon /usr/ports/devel/ffmpeg (rather than /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg), but > it only started after upgrading to 6.2-STABLE, so I thought I'd try here > first, to see if anyone has similar experience and any pointers. There are > no relevant bugs at bugs.freebsd.org, or at bugs.kde.org ... so I'm kinda > fishin', I guess :) > > Clearly this is not critical, nor am I suffering from significantly reduced > functionality. But if anyone is of a mind to point me in the right > direction, I'd be much obliged. > > lane Did you upgrade your ports yet? You will need to but I would probably wait until after XOrg 7.2 is brought into the tree. Duane
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