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

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net> wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 08:50 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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.

There were no software updates.  As for disk corruption, while I
suppose that's possible, that seems unlikely when it also happens with
a newly built mplayer binary too.

Does the gdb backtrace not shed any light on what is wrong?