mplayer segfault on any package

The above attachment is from the medibuntu-repos.

Looking at the attachments in this bug report, I noticed that "strace mplayer (ubuntu repo)" was flagged as a patch. A patch contains changes to an Ubuntu package that will resolve a bug, however that attachment doesn't appear to be one. Subsequently I've unchecked the patch flag for it. In the future keep in mind the definition of a patch. Thanks!

I used to see this, but recently it seems to be fixed, at least on Karmic. What is the status for everybody else?

It's probably been an issue of Gnome Globalmenu. It is fixed on jaunty already.

I get the same error on firefox 3.5 (but not 3.0) with gnome global menu enabled. I think they added some workarounds. This is also the most reasonable explanation why it works now.

Regards

I never used Global Menu, I don't even know what it is. Can we close this ticket or is there anything left to be done?

Let's close it then.

The bug persists here, exactly as described above. Reinstalling mplayer (either the medibuntu or the ubuntu version) does not help. I do not have gnome-globalmenu anywhere apparently:
$ locate -i globalmenu
/usr/share/icons/gnome-brave/16x16/apps/globalmenu.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome-brave/22x22/apps/globalmenu.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome-brave/24x24/apps/globalmenu.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome-brave/32x32/apps/globalmenu.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome-brave/scalable/apps/globalmenu.svg

How do I get mplayer working? What can I do to debug?

Another datapoint: It seems hardware related: On my second laptop, with the same software as the one that exhibits the
problem, but with intel graphics adapter, the bug does not show. On my current laptop, where I recently changed the graphics
card from nvidia to ati, the bug shows. I am rather sure, that I used mplayer before and everything worked, until I changed the
graphics card. Looks like some initialization that is ati specific.

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.