On Freitag 17 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. > mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to > pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer, > xine and Myth all crash with similar errors. Only xine doesn't crash X > completely and leaves behind anything in terms of clues. > > I've also tried upgrading xorg-x11 to version 7.4. No changes. > > m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ xine > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. > (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. > X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo) > Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () > Serial number of failed request: 1814 > Current serial number in output stream: 1815 > m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ > > Note that this isn't even trying to play the file, it's just trying > to start the user interface. > > I see segfault and error/warning messages in dmesg: > > mtrr: no MTRR for f0000000,8000000 found > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > X[22596]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bf91df1c error 4 in > Xorg[8048000+179000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > X[22764]: segfault at 20000d8 ip b7f266c4 sp bfd56a80 error 4 in > libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0[b7f25000+7000] > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > > The MTRR warnings have been around forever on this machine. I think > the drm:i915 warning is benign in that it's supposedly saying the > kernel doesn't have gem support, but I could be very wrong about that. > > The kernel is recent but not the most up to date. > > Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? > I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's > probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially > for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something > uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) > > I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. > > Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. > > Cheers, > Mark
have you rebuilt libxv? what happens if you don't use xv but xshm as output plugin?
