vlc segfaults (repost)

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** Reply to note from Michael Flohr <flohr at itp.uni-hannover.de> Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:42:09 +0100

Go into Gnome theme manager and select a theme that doesn't use bitmapped backgrounds.  This fixed this exact problem on my RH 7.1 system.

> In an earlier email, I reported that vlc 0.2.91 always crashes
> with the error message
> "Xlib: unexpected async reply (0x....)!" with .... varying hex numbers.
> This happens only when reading a DVD, but NOT when playing
> an mpeg file. The error occurs as soon as the video output
> window is opened.
>   
> What finally bring vlc down is not clear, but after this error,
> I always get
> "multiple segmentation faults, no further error messages can be displayed"
> or something like that (my system runs in German, so I tried
> to translate the error message).
 

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