Re: Gxine crashes and causes X server to die

Darren Salt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.user
Message-ID <4F88A1DA24%[email protected]>
I demand that JD may or may not have written...

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:16:47 +0000,
> Darren Salt <[email protected]> wrote
>> I demand that JD may or may not have written...
>>> I have the following xine and xine related RPMS installed:
>>> $ rpm -qa | grep xine
>>> gxine-0.5.11-14.fc7
>>> xine-lib-1.1.10.1-1.fc7.1
>> [snip]
>>> System is FC7 with latest updates on AMD 64 cpu, and ATI Radeon 9600
>>> graphics, and 2GB ram and oodles of disk space. At any rate, if I run
>>> gxine it starts up and after I get the gui, it crashes immediately and
>>> kills the X server and I have to re-login.
>> That says that there's some bugginess in the X server or one of its driver
>> modules.
>>> However, if I run it via gdb, no problems at all - it comes up, I can
>>> play a movie and I exit gxine and all is well.
>> That suggests that something uninitialised is being used. BTW, why are you
>> using opengl? xv should be fine on that hardware.
>> Version numbers of relevant installed X server/driver packages, may help.

> The xorg server is
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-16.fc7
> The driver is:
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-4.fc7

> P.S: I will try to install the ATI/AMD driver 
>      ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64
>      to see if it will make any difference

You might be better off trying newer xf86-video-ati (it's been a while since
6.6.3 was released) before trying the taintware. (I'm currently using a
post-6.8.0 git snapshot.)

>>> I am not having this problem with xine itself. Only gxine.
>> That's a bit... strange. It does say that startup differences play a part,
>> though.

> I think it also says there is a timing issue - this is usually the case
> when a problem will manifest when debugging is off, but will not manifest
> when debugging is on.

It's either that or there's something uninitialised.

> I have seen this often also in real-time systems development.

Heisenbugs are *fun*. :-)

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