Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Attracting more Linux audio developers

From: Marc-Olivier Barre <mobarre@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 18:24:36 EET

On 12/14/06, Stephen Cameron <smcameron@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> I ran into a similar problem once, the symptom appeared to
> incriminate glibc at first blush, but turned out to be flac
> library.
>
> here's what I recorded about it:
>
> Jun 13, 2006 Figured out why xmms was dying with glibc detecting
> "double free or corruption:" It's because of a bug in the flac lib.
> Not wanting to waste time getting a new flac (I haven't at the moment
> got a need for FLAC) I straced xmms and found where it was loading
> the lib (from /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.*) moved those files
> out of there and now xmms runs again.

As far as I remember, one version of the the xmms FLAC plugin was
buggy and crashed xmms. I haven't tested this for a while. I'll run
some tests tonight to see what I can find about this.

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Received on Thu Dec 14 20:15:01 2006

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