On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:11 -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > As of a couple of days ago, any media player that I try on my Debian Sid > box segfaults, no matter what video file format. Same goes after > installing VLC. > > After doing a search, I think I might want to use a program called > strace to try to figure out what's going on. I have to admit that I am > totally perplexed by the strace man page as well as by the output after > running "strace xine example.avi". > > How do I post the output to the mailing list, as a text attachment or > inline with the message? Any preferred command line options?
strace output is really verbose and become really long really fast, I don't think putting it inline would be appreciated unless you trim it down to only the relevant parts, if it's possible to find them. You could use something like http://pastebin.com/ to post it online and provide a link, or possibly compress the log and attach it to a mail. For using strace, this tutorial is pretty easy to follow. http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/05/strace-very-powerful-troubleshooting.html If strace can't help you, the next step is gdb, but it's a little more complicated as you need to build debug enabled version of the packages you have trouble with. http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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