dvdstyler problem, segfaults

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 06:39:30PM -0700, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:13:48 -0500
> Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > This is in regard to a Fedora-20 system I use when converting VHS
> > tapes to DVD.
> > 
> > I would really rather NOT update to a later fedora--it is used for
> > that one purpose only, and it took some effort to find andlearn the
> > tools I needed to do the job.
> > 
> > So, a year or so ago I converted probably a hundred tapes to DVD.
> > Tedious, but doable without real trouble.
> > 
> > The system sits idle for some months, then I come back to it to use it
> > again, and I find that when I'm ready to create the ISO image, for
> > which I have used dvdstyler, that dvdstyler segfaults early in its
> > operation.
> > 
> > I've not found a way to do what I need that doesn't segfault.
> > 
> > This is weird, because it has hardly even been "yum update"-ed during
> > the interval. what would have changed? I dunno...
> > 
> > So, after a lot of head-banging I decided it is probably easiest to
> > just recompile dvdstyler to see if that avoids the problem. (I've
> > already tried reinstalling it...).
> > 
> > I set up mock on the box and proceed to try a build, using this
> > command:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I'd appreciate some suggestions here, I'm not particularly fluent in
> > mock.
> 
> I can't help you with the mock issue.  I'd like to be fluent, but I
> haven't taken the time to learn.  Instead, I just set up an rpmbuild
> environment on the box, by running, as user, 
> rpmdev-setuptree  
> This puts an rpmbuild directory in ~.  Then, using the src.rpm, run 
> rpm -ivh [name.src.rpm]
> as the user to set the package up for build in the rpmbuild tree.  Then
> run
> rpmbuild -bb [name].spec
> in the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory.
> 
> The built binary package should be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/[architecture]/.
> You can yum update or reinstall it with
> yum -C ./[binary rpm package]

I've done that before, and it should work ehre too. but I recently
learned a little about mock and thought to try it.

> Unlike mock builds, this isn't happening in a chroot, so it has access
> to all the build environment on the machine.  Building for a single
> machine that you will install the package on is easier that way.  Mock
> is way more sophisticated, but also more complex, especially for out of
> date versions.
> 
> It might be even easier to just go to rpmfusion.org and download the
> dvdstyler package for f22.  If the requirements are met on your box, it
> should just install using the same yum -C command as above.  Worth a
> try.

yes, it might be easier. I'll look into that too.

thanks!


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