[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#427242: kmplayer: mysterious crash, crashing X also

[Mahesh T. Pai]

A Mennucc said on Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:13:01PM +0200,:

 > the fact that X crashes when any of the above program is run would
 > suggest that the problem is with X and not with the above programs

Hmm.. yes. And the fact that all video player front ends - xine-ui,
kmplayer and kaffeine crashed X while exiting.

I confess that I did not test with other front ends before filing this
bug, but then, I having using kmplayer for a long time (about 18
months) on Sid with fortnightly upgradess now.

But kmplayer was running fine a few weeks back - about 5 or 6 weeks
back; I do not always view videos on this machine so did not exactly
notice when it was causing problems. Also, all Xorg packages are up to
date.  :(

 > anyway, what video are you trying to play?

Happens with all video formats / files.

 > also what video hardware is in your PC?

Trident.

Here is the output of lspci:-

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)

 >  what video drivers are you using for  Xorg?

 trident.

 > also, try running a memory test
 > (to this end , install the package 'memtest86' : if you use grub 
 > as your bootloader, this will add an item to the  menu you see at boot:
 > choose that and let it run for ~20minutes and look if there are errors)

Will do - cannot shut down the system right now - but no other app is
having any problem, not do the logs show up anything.

> ps: next time you want to send an strace, gzip it and send as attachment :-)

Oops!! sorry!!!
 

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