Comment 34 for bug 7037

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:20:38 +0200
From: Marcin Owsiany <email address hidden>
To: Alex Malinovich <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#252170: xmms-xf86audio: Loading plugin causes XMMS segfault

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:57:56PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:23, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> --snip--
> > When did that start?
>
> Yesterday. It had been working fine most of the day. I logged out of
> Gnome and logged back in and it stopped working.

Any upgrades between that and previous relogin?

> > Do you use ACME?
>
> Nope. I'm using Gnome 2.6 which did away with ACME and integrated it
> into the Keyboard Shortcuts.

Hm, so just like me.

> > Do you use GNOME? If so, which version?
>
> See above. 2.6 from experimental (not from sid)

BTW it looks like that was moved from experimental to sid recently

> > Are any diagnostic messages printed before the segfault?
> Here's the full output:
>
> alex@Balrog:~/.xmms$ xmms
>
> Segmentation fault
>
> You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
> http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report.

Argh! A SIGSEGV handler :-(

> alex@Balrog:~/.xmms$
>
> > Please make it dump core (ulimit -c unlimited), load it into gdb and
> > produce a backtrace. (gdb /usr/bin/xmms core).
> I did a ulimit -c unlimited, but XMMS isn't producing a core dump.
> ulimit -a shows the limits as unlimited, but there's still no core.

Probably because of that signal handler :-/

> Doing a ltrace xmms 2>/dev/null produces a core dump, but I'm not really
> sure if it's an ltrace core dump or a xmms core dump.

Try "file core", that should say.

> Here's the output
> from gdb.
>
> (no debugging symbols found)...(gdb) bt
> #0 0x080562b1 in ?? ()
> #1 0x0806d148 in ctrl_write_packet ()
> #2 0x411849b4 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
> #3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb)

Unfortunately this looks like garbage...

> 4 files attached:

Thanks, I'll investigate those.

Marcin
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