I'm still trying to track down whats causing this. (see my missive last Wednesday -
basically all mp3 programs are dying with SIGFPE - cyrix 6X86 - als100 soundcard -
kernel 2.4.0-test7 - standard kernel sound drivers)
I ran smpeg-gtv from potato and it changed the error message slightly. Now it says:
SIGFPE: Floating Point Exception: SDL Parachute deployed.
Does this mean more to anyone else than it does to me? smpeg also had more tenacity
than any others as it actually played whole songs on at least three or four occasions
before it died.
xmms played .wav files fine, i setup a playlist and let it random repeat through it
and came back about half an hour later and it was still running. To be fair they were
mostly pretty short (5-10 sec) but there were a couple over a minute long. Might this
make a difference.
And as it happens to ALL mp3 programs I've tried so far I thought I'd find out what
they have in common infrastructure-wise, and the only one is libc.so.6.
So now I'm taking a crash course in gdb and Data Display Debugger....but most of my
programming experience has been with scripting or beginner C, but none on Linux
(YET!), so any gurus got some ideas on what to look out for?
Failing that any good tips on debugging established programs (i.e not my own) in
general?
Significant Others advice - "Just go back to Windows" NEVER!!
Steve
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