[SOLVED] Re: Crashes Plenty after latest update

[droidery at gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 29, 2012 03:05:42 PM Alec Leamas wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I was facing random screen flickering issues with Nouveau. Using the 
proprietary driver solved the problem.
> 
> Or look into https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737223 for
> workarounds

Awesome. Rebuilding the prelink database solved my problem.

Many thanks!
-Amit