kino crashes with 'Illegal istruction' on ibook g3

Bug #1909 reported by Andrea Bedini
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kino (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Kubuntu Bugs

Bug Description

It creashes on every startup.

Here is a backtrace:

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
[Switching to Thread 805610832 (LWP 10749)]
0x101602f4 in has_altivec ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x101602f4 in has_altivec ()
#1 0x101620c8 in dsputil_h264_init_ppc ()
#2 0x1015f418 in dsputil_init_ppc ()
#3 0x100e65dc in dsputil_init ()
#4 0x1013550c in simple_idct48_add ()
#5 0x100e3120 in avcodec_open ()
#6 0x100680a8 in Frame::Frame ()
#7 0x1006a5f0 in KinoFramePool::GetFrame ()
#8 0x10080ed4 in PageEditor::start ()
#9 0x100746ac in KinoCommon::start ()
#10 0x10074920 in KinoCommon::setCurrentPage ()
#11 0x100b6d94 in pageStart ()
#12 0x10030154 in on_main_notebook_switch_page ()

Maybe this is a ffmpeg bug, since has_altivec is in libavcodecs sources.

Revision history for this message
Andrea Bedini (andreabedini) wrote :

rebuilding the source package on the same machine seems to work just fine.

the problem may be caused by static linking of kino with a wrong/bugged/old version of libavcodecs.

my 2cents.

Changed in kino:
assignee: nobody → kubuntu-team
Changed in kino:
status: New → Fixed
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