[clug] xmms busted

Steven Hanley sjh at svana.org
Tue May 11 09:44:26 GMT 2004


On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:13:56PM +1000, 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)?

it depends

> * trace what's going on in xmms so the useless segfault message gets 
> some context?

strace and ltrace (with -o -f and -p options) are your friends, read the man
pages (install the packages first).

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