Re: mplayer

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Christer Solskogen wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 22:23, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Christer Solskogen <solskogen_at_carebears.mine.nu>
> > > Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 22:03:37 +0200
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > I did a cvsup, and a upgrade of my FreeBSD system today(CURRENT)
> > > and now i cant run mplayer anymore[1].
> > > I also did a recompile of mplayer, but it did not help. anyone else
> > > notice this?
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > $ mplayer 
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped
> > 
> > Odds are excellent that something that gets linked to mplayer is trying
> > to use the wrong thread library. Have you tried mapping all threading to
> > use libpthread and not to use libc_r? These things are really hard to
> > track down when plug-ins are used by a program and simply using ldd to
> > check on what libs are called won't find the problem.
> 
> It seems like that was not the problem. the problem is the
> nvidia-driver. 
> I did a portupgrade -fR mplayer-gtk\* , and mplayer works, but my GL
> stuff was broken. So I reinstalled nvidia-driver, and the problem was
> there again.

Read src/UPDATING and search for nvidia.

-- 
Dan Eischen