[vlc] Re: can't start in SuSE9.0

[Matthias Niess]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:34:38 +0200, Olivier Teulière <ipkiss at via.ecp.fr>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004, Matthias Niess wrote:
>> Unfortunately it vlc doesn't start. Running it from command line with
>> --verbose gives me the following error:
>>
>> -- snip --
>> VLC media player 0.7.2 Bond
>> [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module
>> `/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so'
>> (/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so: undefined symbol:
>> xmlTextReaderConstName)
>> Speicherzugriffsfehler
>> -- snip --
>
> The warning concerning the skins2 plugin means that the libxml2 is not
> bouilt with XML Text Reader support, thus preventing the skins2 module
> to work. This won't prevent VLC from starting though (only this
> particular module won't be loaded), so the segmentation fault is
> probably due to something else...
>
> Basic things you can try would be to remove your configuration file (in
> cas you have one, it's in ~/.vlc/), make sure you started VLC in fully
> verbose mode (vlc -vvv), and perhaps try a lightweight interface like
> the rc one (vlc -vvv -I rc). But it really seems like a bug at startup,
> so there's not much you can do to workaround it.
>
> The most useful information for us would be to have a gdb backtrace (if
> your version of VLC was compiled in debug mode...)

this is what the full verbose gives me:
VLC media player 0.7.2 Bond
[00000000] main root debug: VLC media player - version 0.7.2 Bond - (c)  
1996-2004 VideoLAN
[00000000] main root debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  
--host=i686-suse-linux --build=i686-suse-linux --target=i586-suse-linux  
--program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin  
--sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share  
--includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec  
--localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man  
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-release --enable-dvdread  
--enable-dvdplay --enable-dvbpsi --enable-v4l --enable-vcd --enable-mad  
--enable-pp --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg=/usr --enable-faad --enable-xvid  
--enable-dv --enable-flac --enable-theora --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo  
--disable-qte --disable-directx --enable-fb --enable-aa --without-wingdi  
--enable-oss --enable-esd --enable-arts --disable-waveout --enable-gtk  
--disable-familiar --enable-gnome --enable-qt --disable-opie  
--disable-macosx --disable-qnx --disable-intfwin --enable-ncurses  
--enable-xosd --enable-lirc --enable-pth --disable-st --disable-testsuite  
--enable-plugins --disable-mkv --disable-wxwindows --enable-qt --enable-kde
[00000001] main vlc debug: translation test: code is "de"
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/matthias/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module  
`/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so'  
(/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so: undefined symbol:  
xmlTextReaderConstName)
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 175 modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/matthias/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT  
FPU
[00000001] main vlc debug: looking for memcpy module
[00000001] main vlc debug: probing 4 candidates
[00000010] main module debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000217] main playlist debug: creating group Normal with id 1 at  
position 0
[00000217] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000217] main playlist debug: thread 135143384 (playlist) created at  
priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:109)
[00000218] main interface debug: looking for interface module
[00000218] main interface debug: probing 1 candidate
[00000058] main module debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000218] main interface debug: interface initialized
[00000218] main interface debug: thread 136243104 (interface) created at  
priority 0 (src/interface/interface.c:152)
[00000219] main interface debug: looking for interface module
[00000219] main interface debug: probing 6 candidates
[00000219] main interface debug: looking for gui-helper module
[00000219] main interface debug: probing 1 candidate
Speicherzugriffsfehler
-- end --
How do I get the gdb backtrace?

thanks so far
Matthias Niess


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