[clug] xmms busted

[Paul Warren]

Stephen Collins wrote:
> I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my Fedora Core 1 install over the 
> weekend.  It upgraded several packages, one of which has caused xmms to 
> segfault every time I start it.  Is there a good way I can:
> 
> * figure out what got borked (some sort of apt-get log)?
> * trace what's going on in xmms so the useless segfault message gets 
> some context?
> 
> Reduced to using Rhythmbox.  Help.
> 
> Steve

Steve,

Last time I had a problem with spontaneous segfaults, I did an strace on 
whatever was dying, which told me that I had some borked fonts. 
Probably won't be the same problem, but strace does help by telling you 
what happens before the seqfault.

Hope this helps.


Cheers
-- 
Paul Warren
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