It sure is funny, many people reported this problem as well. RedHat-7.2 [default] with RealPlayer RPM, realplayer crashes and burns upon startup. Try it sometime.
Clean install of 7.2, and try the real player rpm, it does not work w/out the glibc eratta update. "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, war wrote: > > >Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 11:40:11 -0500 > >From: war <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Subject: Re: [Avifile]avifile problem reported in Red Hat Linux 7.2 > > > >Compiling them improperly? > >That's a sad excuse for a broken glibc. > > > >The defautl glibc in rh72 was so broken it wouldn't even launch > >RealPlayer. > >Go figure. > > That's funny, I'm running realplayer just fine. I'm sure many > other Red Hat Linux 7.2 users are using it without a hitch on > this list also. > > Instead of making false claims of broken glibc, please provide > information to show where you are coming to these conclusions > rather than random conjecture. > > >Who knows how many other problems there are as well. > > This seems more of distribution bashing than anything. > > If you have found a legitimate bug in glibc, provide the evidence > of that, and we will look into it. So far I have seen nothing. > > And... avifile works fine. Anyone can easily verify that, as it > compiles and runs very nicely. Runs better than the other player > I was using also. > > Not possible to debug a problem which doesn't seem to be > reproduceable. Again however, if you can give detailed > information on how to reproduce this alleged problem, using any > release of Red Hat Linux, and explain how and why you think it is > a glibc bug, with valid facts, and not just "it don't work", then > you can perhaps get a better answer on how to fix the problem > that only you are experiencing. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: > OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, > XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 > Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 > http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
