[ATrpms-devel] XMMS broke

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 12:44:19 CET 2005


Removing xmms-flac AND flac-devel solves the problem.

flac-devel contains:

/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.la
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so

This should not be there, in my oppinion.

/Paulo Roma.

On 12/9/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:40:06AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > No, nothing more is printed, only the line I sent to you.
> > After that, I have to kill it (ctrl C).
> > xmms was working fine last night. What I did after that was:
> >
> > upgraded flac and libogg from atrpms.
> > upgraded wxGTK to 2.6.2 from freshrpms (removed
> > wxGTK and wxGTK2 from extras).
> > upgraded audacity, vlc and xchm as a consequence.
>
> That's quite a bunch. Wrt ATrpms I'd be interested if downgrading alsa
> and/or ogg would remove the error.
>
> > This morning, the only thing broke was xmms.
> > Digging the net, I saw people complaining about flac plugin and xmms in
> > several distros.
> >
> > I also tried xmms from fedora extras with the same result.
> >
> > So, I created a script to start xmms disabling the malloc test.
> >
> > /Paulo Roma.
> >
> > On 12/9/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:01:01AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > > > Hi, Axel
> > > >
> > > > after upgrading flac and libogg, xmms does not start anymore:
> > > >
> > > > *** glibc detected *** xmms: double free or corruption (out):
> 0x0053c4b8
> > > ***
> > > >
> > > > The temporary solution is to define:
> > > >
> > > > setenv MALLOC_CHECK_ 0
> > > >
> > > > The new glibc performs additional tests. I think the
> > > > problem is flac. Even removing xmms-flac, the problem
> > > > does not disappear, though.
> > >
> > > Then the problem should be something else.
> > >
> > > Wasn't there a backtrace with the error above? Usually glibc gives a
> > > lib backtrace, so that you know in which loaded lib glibc died. If
> > > there is no backtrace, then the software with an issue is the caller
> > > itself.
> > >
> > > So it may be that flac/ogg are truggering corruption in xmms and not
> > > in their own domain. That's rather nasty to debug.
> > >
> > > I'll try to reproduce it. Do you have any small example file to test
> > > it with?
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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