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Date:      Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:31:05 -0500
From:      Brian John <brianjohn@fusemail.com>
To:        David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
Cc:        Ian Moore <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error
Message-ID:  <43433AE9.7020405@fusemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0510041855i6c623341ge4c5766538079d76@mail.gmail.com>
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David Kirchner wrote:

>On 10/4/05, Brian John <brianjohn@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.
>
>  
>
David,
Ok, I sent the logs to you but the list rejected it.  I couldn't find 
anything in there that looked useful.  Could this possibly have 
something to do with the video card I'm running?  I'm running a Radeon 
9200 SE 256 MB.

Ian,
What kind of card are you running?

Thanks

/Brian



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