Maybe you forgot to install some library that xmms depends on? Have a look at ldd xmms and see what libraries xmms depends on. Do you have all those libs installed? Alternatively try strace xmms and see if the output gives you a clue.
Cheers, Patrick On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:58, John BouAntoun wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just ran into a slight problem. > > Decided to do yet another clean install of the RH8.0 on my system. > > All went well. > > Updated all the packages tht up2date wanted to update (I kept the rpms on another >disk). > > Anyway I go to start xmms and it segfaults with the following message > > > [john@nkotb john]$ xmms > > Segmentation fault > > You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit > http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report. > > > I checked bugs.xmms.org and there does indeed seem to be somebody else who has >submitted a bug that says "segfaults on startup in red hat 8". But that bug has been >resolved as WORKSFORME, that is, the bug has been resolved because they coudln't >reproduce it. > > Has anyone else ran into this problem? And is there any use in me bugzilla-ing it in >the redhat bugzilla database? > > I just don't understand. It was working an hour ago, all I did was a new clean >install (formated the ext3 partition again) and updated all the packages (including >the kernel) that up2date wanted. > > Help here would be much appreciated > > John > > >
