[MPlayer-users] SOLVED - 1.0rc1try3 crash (gmplayer)

[Robby Workman]

Robby Workman wrote:
> I've got a relatively recent problem with gmplayer.
> I start gmplayer (using the default Blue theme), and right-click
> on the window, open a file, and it plays normally.  After that
> video finishes (or if I stop it), if I right-click on the window
> again, gmplayer crashes.
> 
> Here's the result of running it in gdb:
> 
> [ws] Error in display.
> [ws] Error code: 178 ( RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) )
> [ws] Request code: 155
> [ws] Minor code: 7
> [ws] Modules: (NULL)
> Program exited normally.
> 
> strace results in this:
> 
> open("/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB", O_RDONLY) = 9
> fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=37949, ...}) = 0
> read(9, "! $Xorg: XErrorDB,v 1.3 2000/08/"..., 37949) = 37949
> close(9) = 0
> write(2, "[ws] Error in display.\n", 23[ws] Error in display.
> ) = 23
> write(2, "[ws] Error code: 178 ( RenderBa"..., 71[ws] Error code: 178
> ( RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) )
> ) = 71
> write(2, "[ws] Request code: 155\n", 24[ws] Request code: 155
> ) = 24
> write(2, "[ws] Minor code: 7\n", 20[ws] Minor code: 7
> ) = 20
> write(2, "[ws] Modules: (NULL)\n", 22[ws] Modules: (NULL)
> ) = 22
> exit_group(0)


I'll reply to myself...  and with good news! :-)

If anyone else is getting this, it was due to a bug in cairo 1.4.8.
See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo/10714

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