[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Crash

[John Cherbini]

Cool.  Should I set the home variable to /root/.mplayer or the main
mplayer home dir?

JC

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> 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
>
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