Crashes Plenty after latest update

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 18:43 +1100, droidery at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I 'yum update' (d) a fresh F16 KDE installation this morning. And programs 
> have been crashing.
> 
> For example, this is a mplayer crash:
> 
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/mplayer 
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> elf_dynamic_do_Rela (skip_ifunc=0, nrelative=558093, relsize=6782952, 
>     reladdr=<optimized out>, map=0xb76dd000, lazy=<optimized out>) at do-
> rel.h:121
> 121                 DO_ELF_MACHINE_REL_RELATIVE (map, l_addr, relative);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  elf_dynamic_do_Rela (skip_ifunc=0, nrelative=558093, relsize=6782952, 
>     reladdr=<optimized out>, map=0xb76dd000, lazy=<optimized out>) at do-
> rel.h:121
> #1  _dl_relocate_object (scope=0xb76dd1b8, reloc_mode=1, consider_profiling=0)
>     at dl-reloc.c:265
> #2  0x00d21aab in dl_main (phdr=0x8048034, phnum=8, user_entry=0xbff41cfc, 
> auxv=0xbff41ea8)
>     at rtld.c:2280
> #3  0x00d33d67 in _dl_sysdep_start (start_argptr=0xbff41d90, dl_main=0xd20420 
> <dl_main>)
>     at ../elf/dl-sysdep.c:244
> #4  0x00d238ba in _dl_start_final (arg=0xbff41d90) at rtld.c:335
> #5  _dl_start (arg=0xbff41d90) at rtld.c:561
> #6  0x00d1f2b7 in _start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further
> 
> Vlc crashes, so does nvidia-xserver-settings.
> 
> What can I look into to help fix this?

For a start, try without the NVIDIA proprietary driver.
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