[MPlayer-users] segmentation fault

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 27 November 2003 at 01:20, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if this was posted before but I'm new to the list. I'm
> running RH9.0 on a Pentium-S, some of the hardware information is
> below. I downloaded the mpla*1.0pre2-1* rpms from:
> 
> 	www.piorunek.pl/dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/i386/
> 
> The problem is that the program quits with a segmentation fault
> (something related to fast_memcpy()?). At the bottom of the mail,
> is the log of the gdb output.
> 
> The same problem also appears with the rpms taken from freshrpms.net.
> Many thanks in advance.

My best suggestion for now is to get the source RPM and rebuild it. I
think MPlayer uses processor-specific instruction set for fast_memcpy even
if I give it --enable-runtime-cpudetection at ./configure time.

I'll keep your problem in mind for future releases, though.

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