Bug#523035: libvlccore0: VLC shuts down with "Illegal Instruction" warning opening any media

[Gunther Furtado]

2009/4/8 Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at chewa.net>:
> Hello,
>
> 2009/4/8 Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado at gmail.com>:
> :
>>>
>>>> ----beggining
>>>> LC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko
>>>> [New Thread 0x48021f20 (LWP 6467)]
>>>>
>>>> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
>>>> [Switching to Thread 0x48021f20 (LWP 6467)]
>>>> 0x0ff69140 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0
>>>> ----end
>
> Could you install the vlc-dbg package and see if the gdb backtrace is
> more interesting
>

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/vlc /mnt/Prometeu/Desktop\
Folder/Cecília/Videos_Çedilha/PartoCedilha\ \(58\).MPG
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko
[New Thread 0x48021f20 (LWP 4739)]

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
[Switching to Thread 0x48021f20 (LWP 4739)]
0x0ff69140 in CPUCapabilities () at misc/cpu.c:285
285     misc/cpu.c: No such file or directory.
        in misc/cpu.c
(gdb)

>>>> I might be related to my arch (PPC) since I don't get the same
>>>> behaviour im my i386 install.
>>>
>>>is that an G3 or G4 machine? Is it altivec capable?
>>>
>>
>> That is an iMac G3 333MHz. I don't realy know about altivec.
>
> within the first 15 lines of vlc -vvv there should be a line like:
> "main libvlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2".
> Could you paste what it gives on your G3.
>

main libvlc debug: CPU has capabilities FPU
>
> --
> Xtophe
>

Thanks!

-- 
Gunther Furtado
Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil
gunfurtado at gmail.com

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