Re: Xine exiting without a good-bye (was Re: Sound disappearing from VLC after kernel update)

I recently became aware that xine backend of the kde sound system did
not play nice in the stock ubuntu 10.04 versions (ie a known bug). And
xine would randomly exit during sound play. Thankfully I was able to
grab the backports version which worked much better.

On 13 October 2011 19:01, Patrick Connolly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Somewhere about Tue, 11-Oct-2011 at 10:44AM +1300 (give or take), Nick Rout wrote:
>
> |> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Patrick Connolly
> |> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> |> >
> |> > That was easy.  Evidently the problem with Xine is rather different
> |> > (particularly since a different user makes no difference to the
> |> > symptoms).  Generally I prefer to use it in preference to VLC but with
> |> > some DVDs, I can get as far as indicating which part of the DVD I want
> |> > to see and once I select it, Xine vanishes.  I couldn't find anything
> |> > in /var/log/messages but I know that it did used to work before a
> |> > kernel upgrade.
> |> >
> |> > Ideas where I should look would be appreciated.
> |>
> |> running from the command line generally sips out error messages that
> |> are informative.
>
> Thanks for that suggestion.  It certainly gives something, but it's
> meaningless to me.
>
> What information can be gathered from this?
>
> ======= Memory map: ========
> 00110000-0013d000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 36428      /usr/lib/libvcdinfo.so.0.2.0
> 0013d000-0013e000 rw-p 0002d000 08:06 36428      /usr/lib/libvcdinfo.so.0.2.0
> 0013e000-0013f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> 0013f000-0014a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 48631      /usr/lib/libiso9660.so.7.0.0
> 0014a000-0014b000 rw-p 0000b000 08:06 48631      /usr/lib/libiso9660.so.7.0.0
> 0014b000-0016a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 59300      /usr/lib/libcdio.so.12.0.0
> 0016a000-0016b000 rw-p 0001e000 08:06 59300      /usr/lib/libcdio.so.12.0.0
> 0016b000-0016f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
>
> [...]
>
> 008ea000-008fd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> 00904000-00905000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
> 00929000-00931000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146695     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_ogg.so
> 00931000-00932000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 146695     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_ogg.so
> 00932000-00935000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146727     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_wavpack.so
> 00935000-00936000 rw-p 00003000 08:06 146727     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_wavpack.so
> 0096b000-00970000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146693     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so
> 00970000-00971000 rw-p 00004000 08:06 146693     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so
> 0099e000-009a0000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146688     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_mng.so
> 009a0000-009a1000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 146688     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_dmx_mng.so
> 00a0f000-00a19000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146724     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_vo_out_xv.so
> 00a19000-00a1a000 rw-p 00009000 08:06 146724     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_vo_out_xv.so
> 00a27000-00a28000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 146659     /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_ao_out_none.soAborted (core dumped)
>
>
> I'm guessing the last few lines are what tell the story and in the
> interests of avoiding clutter I omitted a chunk in the middle.  If it
> is needed, it can be supplied (about 70 lines of output).
>
>
> TIA
>
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