It appears, the culprit was some leftover libs from the nvidia binary driver, i.e. the one from nvidia itself, installed by the installer itself, not a ubuntu package. I upgraded to karmic, and the same bug still was there: mplayer just segfaults, when called from the commandline, without any arguments. Moreover a similar bug appeared for vlc as well: Calling vlc without any args just segfaulted. strace then revealed that just before the segfault, the nvidia lib was loaded. Removing all files installed by the nvidia installer solved the problem for both, mplayer and vlc.
I think we can close the bug. As some other people hit the same problem, maybe the same fix works for them. -- mplayer segfault on any package https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
