[MPlayer-users] segfault even when running with no input files or options

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Thu May 31 04:38:54 CEST 2012


On 05/30/2012 08:50 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson at cox.net>  wrote:
>> On 05/29/2012 10:57 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>
>>> Running Fedora16-i686, and all of a sudden mplayer is segfaulting.  It
>>> was working fine yesterday, today nothing but segfaults.  Simply
>>
>>
>> I'd boot into memtest86+ and see what it says.
>
> 2 passes completed with no errors detected.  Just for giggles, I
> swapped out all the RAM with new RAM, and mplayer continues to
> segfault. I think that conclusively rules out bad RAM as the problem.
>
> What next?

Disk corruption or there was some s/w update some time between "working 
fine yesterday" and "today nothing but segfaults" which you haven't 
mentioned.

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