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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Is there some way I can figure out just what is causing the segmentation
> > fault?  Some sort of register dump?
>
> Under Debian I use strace: type "strace app-name" in a terminal and it
> outputs all the program code to the terminal window as it starts.  You can
> see the last thing that happened before the segfault.  Don't know
> how/where about this program for Slackware.  I think it can take alot of
> cpu cycles and memory, depending on the app.

/slakware/d1/strace.tgz  - 105 K executable and I cannot figure out how to 
use it because manpages are written in a language that I can't understand.
Documentation (doc files) are about installation, not use.

strace realplay lists it all on the screen and I can scroll back 
a few screens but there are lots of them.  How do I save to a file?
I tried -o filename and --f -o filename.

Thanks, James, and I hope strace solves this problem.

I was wondering if I did not install all the necessary files.

There were complaints about locale files missing and also icon files in 
root/icon and /usr/X11R6/include/X11/icons.  A search in MANIFEST.gz did 
not find /root/icon or /X11/icon.  I would have suspected that I am 
missing something in xlib or xbin packages but I installed them on one 
computer and realplay still exited on that computer with segmentation 
fault.  The realplay window appears just before it exits.


I have deleted anything to do with locale on all our computers and 
realplay still installed and runs on one of them (the 475MHz).


Maybe I will set up a test computer with ALL of the complete packages for 
X, including locales, and Xvga (16-color) - realplayer installed in 16 
colors with complaints on the one computer where it works.  If I get a seg 
fault, then move the hard drive to the faster computer and try again.  If 
it works, then delete one file at a time to see what is actually needed.

RP10 needs 350MHz so I am stuck with RP8.  RP7 is not available for 
download, which means you need a 120MHz pentium at the minimum for RP.
Some people wrote in that RP7 worked for them and RP8 crashed.


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