Re: XMMS bug

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

jesus.  speak of the devil.  i just spent about an hour on this today, in
fact.  you guys are mind readers.

i'm using OSS drivers (not alsa).  xmms kept segfaulting.  using the process
of elimination, i determined it was was the alsa plugin.

perhaps we should file a bug report..

pete

begin Markus Lechner <Markus.Lechner@munich.netsurf.de> 
> Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2001 20:46 schrieb Steven Kurylo:
> > Running debian woody 2.4.12
> >
> > I use XMMS all the time and have never had a problem with it.  Today I
> > decided to play around with plug-ins so I did a
> > "apt-get install `apt-cache search xmms plugin | cut -f1 --delimiter=\
> >
> > |sed s#smpeg-xmms##`" to get all the plugin packages.  I did the sed
> >
> > part since smpeg-xmms wouldn't install because libsdl1.2 wasn't availible.
> >
> > Once all the packages are installed and I try to run xmms I get a
> > segmentation fault.  If I do remove with the command above to remove all
> > plug ins, then xmms runs fine.  I don't have time right now to go
> > through each plug in to see which crashes xmms, but I was wondering if
> > anyone else has thing problem.
> >
> > Steven
> 
> I had such a problem. Started XMMS and got a segfault. Ran DDD and watched 
> what was happening.
> 
> In my case i am using OSS and no ALSA. But XMMS had an ALSA library installed 
> under /usr/lib/xmms/Output/ and tried to load it and so it crashed.
> 
> I manually removed this library and from this moment on everything ran fine :)
> 
> Hope this helps.

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