Re: mplayer with dxr3 segfaults

Luca Olivetti <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.plf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> 
> 
>>> If possible, I'd appreciate if you installed gdb and mplayer-debug (with 
>>> the same version as your mplayer pkg) and run it with "gdb --args 
>>> mplayer -vo dxr3 etc etc etc", and in gdb commandline enter "r" to run 
>>> mplayer, and after it segfaults use "bt f" to output the backtrace. Then 
>>> quit using "q".
>> Ok, I'll do that. Thank you
> 
> Done. Surprisingly (to me,  because on another box, but without 
> dxr3,I've no such problem) the segmentation fauls occurs in fontconfig 
> libraries, in fact if I set "fontconfig=no" in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf 
>   it plays ok (albeit with a single dot as osd).

Problem solved: I had *no* font installed (/usr/share/fonts was totally 
empty), don't ask me why, probably there was no package requiring a 
font. I would have expected an error message instead of a segfault though.

Bye
-- 
Luca
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