On Thursday, March 29, 2012 03:05:42 PM Alec Leamas wrote:
On 03/29/2012 02:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 18:43 +1100, droidery(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I 'yum update' (d) a fresh F16 KDE installation this morning. And
>> programs
>> have been crashing.
>>
>> For example, this is a mplayer crash:
>>
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /usr/bin/mplayer
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> elf_dynamic_do_Rela (skip_ifunc=0, nrelative=558093, relsize=6782952,
>>
>> reladdr=<optimized out>, map=0xb76dd000, lazy=<optimized out>)
at
>> do-
>>
>> rel.h:121
>> 121 DO_ELF_MACHINE_REL_RELATIVE (map, l_addr, relative);
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 elf_dynamic_do_Rela (skip_ifunc=0, nrelative=558093, relsize=6782952,
>>
>> reladdr=<optimized out>, map=0xb76dd000, lazy=<optimized out>)
at
>> do-
>>
>> rel.h:121
>> #1 _dl_relocate_object (scope=0xb76dd1b8, reloc_mode=1,
>> consider_profiling=0)>>
>> at dl-reloc.c:265
>>
>> #2 0x00d21aab in dl_main (phdr=0x8048034, phnum=8,
>> user_entry=0xbff41cfc,
>> auxv=0xbff41ea8)
>>
>> at rtld.c:2280
>>
>> #3 0x00d33d67 in _dl_sysdep_start (start_argptr=0xbff41d90,
>> dl_main=0xd20420 <dl_main>)
>>
>> at ../elf/dl-sysdep.c:244
>>
>> #4 0x00d238ba in _dl_start_final (arg=0xbff41d90) at rtld.c:335
>> #5 _dl_start (arg=0xbff41d90) at rtld.c:561
>> #6 0x00d1f2b7 in _start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>> Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind
>> further
>>
>> Vlc crashes, so does nvidia-xserver-settings.
>>
>> What can I look into to help fix this?
>
> For a start, try without the NVIDIA proprietary driver.
Thanks. I was facing random screen flickering issues with Nouveau. Using the
proprietary driver solved the problem.
Awesome. Rebuilding the prelink database solved my problem.
Many thanks!
-Amit