Re: mplayer seg fault

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

> $ mplayer
> Segmentation fault
> 
> 
> ok, this just started, and I have no idea why. nothing in any logs files I
> could find, and I did a
> aptitude mplayer reinstall
> 
> what next?
> running Debian lenny
> 

Segmentation fault is almost always a bug in that package or one of its
dependencies or incompatibility among them. If you are interested in fixing
the problem, compile mplayer with debugging symbols enabled and run it via
gdb and look at the backtrace.

hth
raju
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