Crashes Plenty after latest update

[Alec Leamas]

On 03/29/2012 02:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
Or look into https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737223 for 
workarounds