[MPlayer-users] mplayer can't play WMV3 files

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 01 March 2004 at 09:15, Anders Misfeldt wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:44:36 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > Just disabling exec-shield is not enough. Fedora also has some broken
> > library-address randomization mess with prelink, which you also need
> > to disable. I have no idea how to do that, but you can probably find
> > discussions in the archives.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> The solution was to edit the /etc/sysconfig/prelink file so that you say no to PRELINKING:
> 
> PRELINKING=no
> 
> Then run the cron.daily/prelink script:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> 
> and then disabling exec-shild with
> 
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shild
> 
> Now it works again :-)

This should be added to FAQ, methinks. We're bound to get more of this
problem.

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