[plug] Interesting Xine problem and solution

[Richard Meyer]

Hi,

Just thought I'd let you know about the problem I picked up with Xine -
I'd installed the latest RPMs

-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users   43631 2005-06-22 13:44
libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users 4643072 2005-06-22 13:40
libxine1-1.0.1cvs-050621.k7.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users 1070809 2005-06-22 13:52
openmotif21-libs-2.1.30MLI4-123.1.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users 7498892 2005-06-22 13:48
RealPlayer9-9.0.7.151-4.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users 8308394 2005-06-22 13:46
w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 richard1 users 1765103 2005-06-22 13:41
xine-ui-0.99.3cvs-050621.i586.rpm

and was able to play DVDs and such a treat. I was downloading other
stuff from all over, and suddenly xine stopped working.

When started from a console - it almost immediately seg-faulted. I went
so far as to reboot (yeah, I know it's a Window$ centric idea) in case
the in-memory libs were contaminated, and the same problem. I decided
that somehow the libs or executables were broken, and I'd have to
re-install, but before I did so, I deleted the ~/.xine directory, and
everything was sweet again.

It's a bit disappointing that DATA can cause an app to segfault, but it
can in xine's case. 

Just thought I'd let you know.

BTW I have no idea what data caused the segfault, because it was gone
when the problem was resolved (NOTE TO SELF rename - don't delete)

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>