kmplayer crashes

[memius]

i run etch on a mac mini (powermac architecture).

recently i aptitude installed kmplayer. at first, it worked without sound, then, after i did alsaconf, it worked perfectly.

then, i shutdown and unplugged the machine.

after i started it up again, kmplayer crashes whenever i try to play a file (both music and video).

i see the window coming up, it resizes correctly, there is a very short burst of sound, and then it crashes. in other words, it works perfectly for about a fifth of a second, and then crashes.

the error message is as follows:

"The application KMPlayer (kmplayer) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)."

[Vergil83]

try running it from the command line and see if any more errors are printed

[memius]

from the command line, it looks like this (it doesn't tell me anything):

kxineplayer -wid 48234724 -f '/home/tmh/.kde/share/apps/kmplayer/xine_config' -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa -cb kmplayer-17618/KMPlayerCallback-0 -c
KCrash: Application 'kmplayer' crashing...

[Vergil83]

try removing that file

rm /home/tmh/.kde/share/apps/kmplayer/xine_config

[memius]

it seems kmplayer generates the file every time it starts. i tried to remove it a few times, and checked that it was actually gone, but kmplayer crashes in the same way, and the file is there again afterwards

the error message looks the same to me:

kxineplayer -wid 50331876 -f '/home/tmh/.kde/share/apps/kmplayer/xine_config' -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa -cb kmplayer-18545/KMPlayerCallback-0 -c
KCrash: Application 'kmplayer' crashing...

the same happens whether i start it from the command line, or by clicking a file, or by opening a file from within kmplayer (it starts if i invoke it from the command line without arguments, but crashes as soon as i open something).

[Vergil83]

try running kplayer from the command line with the -v option

kplayer -v

[memius]

-v gives me the version:

Qt: 3.3.7
KDE: 3.5.5
KMPlayer: 0.9.3

i've done a 'aptitude update && aptitue dist-upgrade, so it should be at the latest version.

there is no 'verbose' option.

[Vergil83]

there is no 'verbose' option.

ok.... I know that mplayer has a verbose option...... I think the issue is with alsa. You might try running

dpkg-reconfigre kmplayer

[memius]

yeah, weird that kmplayer doesn't have a verbose option, but according to the man page, the only two options are -v and -h, which are help and version.

i tried

dpkg-reconfigure kmplayer

like you suggested, but it simply did this:

mac:/home/tmh/documents# dpkg-reconfigure kmplayer
mac:/home/tmh/documents#

apparent success, no error messages, but i didn't get to reconfigure anything.

when i tried to run kmplayer after doing this, i still got the same error message.

[Vergil83]

try to find the config file (perhaps in .kde/share/apps/kmplayer/) and see if you can change the sound server used. If it is using alsa, try arts, etc....