[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Crash

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:44:18PM -0700, John Cherbini wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm using mplayer with freevo.  It works fantastically when I boot into X,
> and then run freevo.
> 
> I am using the instructions on this page to put the box into a type of
> Kiosk mode.
> 
> http://www.knet-work.co.uk/freevo-redhat8-guide.htm
> 
> When I do this, and try to play a movie, mplayer crashes with this message
> in mplayer_stderr.log
> 
> "Cannot find HOME directory"
> 
> I've tried to set the HOME variable to a few different things by doing
> "set HOME=/blah  export HOME" in a few different places, but I assume
> that since this is not really logging in to anything, it's creating
> problems.

Remove the word "set". It does something different that's not for
setting environment variables.

Rich