vlc immediate segfault

Matthew Gabeler-Lee msg2 at po.cwru.edu
Thu Feb 15 08:18:03 CET 2001


vlc segfaults immediately on loading on my system.  Redhat 6.2, dual
p3/700.  It doesn't seem to like loading any of its plugins.  This
happens with 0.2.60 and with the current CVS.

[::7:: cheetah at cheetah!pts/2 /usr/src/videolan/vlc]$ ./vlc
VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.60 Urumov - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[::7:: cheetah at cheetah!pts/2 /usr/src/videolan/vlc]$ gdb ./vlc
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/src/videolan/vlc/./vlc
VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.60 Urumov - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN

Cannot access memory at address 0x40567e84
(gdb) bt
#0  _dl_debug_state () at dl-debug.c:56
#1  0x4000ac7b in _dl_catch_error (errstring=0xbffff6c8,
    operate=0x40130970 <dl_open_worker>, args=0xbffff6cc) at
dl-error.c:141
#2  0x40130d1d in _dl_open (
    file=0x80b2be8 "/usr/local/lib/videolan/vlc/ps.so", mode=2,
    caller=0xbffff6c8) at dl-open.c:232
#3  0x400323d3 in dlopen_doit (a=0xbffff7dc) at dlopen.c:41
#4  0x4000ac7b in _dl_catch_error (errstring=0x80a67d8,
    operate=0x400323a8 <dlopen_doit>, args=0xbffff7dc) at dl-error.c:141
#5  0x400328b9 in _dlerror_run (operate=0x400323a8 <dlopen_doit>,
    args=0xbffff7dc) at dlerror.c:125
#6  0x40032393 in __dlopen_check (
    file=0x80b2be8 "/usr/local/lib/videolan/vlc/ps.so", mode=2) at
dlopen.c:53
#7  0x8094ec7 in AllocateDynModule ()
#8  0x0 in ?? ()
(gdb)


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