[MPlayer-users] getting a stack trace when X is hung

[Aaron Brick]

hello all,

i am having mplayer freeze X (especially on movies which i have joined from
individual files, at the joins).

i compiled with debugging symbols and intended to capture a stack trace to
tell what's going on. mplayer hanging in this case means X is paralyzed
until mplayer quits, so i go back to the terminal and killall mplayer, which
solves the problem. however, when i did so, running it through gdb, i
couldn't get X back until i had killed gdb itself, which meant that i
couldn't get a stack trace.

any suggestions on how to analyze this problem? thanks.

aaron brick.



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