hal daemon, and most a/v apps core dump after upgrade to 6.2

[Duane Whitty]

On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 22:42:17 -0500, Lane wrote:
> I just upgraded to FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, after running 5.3 for years.
> 
> My primary reason for upgrading was to take advantage of new features in xine 
> and mplayer, and to get flash functionality out 
> of /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin?
> 
> Maybe I shoulda waited?
> 
> Now I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" when I try to run xine, vlc, or 
> mplayer.  Funny thing, though, is that kmplayer (from KDE 3.5.6) works.  Only 
> when kmplayer starts up it immediately runs mplayer in a second window (not 
> the kmplayer window) and it runs fine!  When I close kmplayer, mplayer 
> closes, too (uh ... duh!).  However, I used to be able to use kmplayer's 
> ability to capture an mms:// stream via a web page, and that is now gone.
> 
> I'm not sure if it is relevant, but hald also crashes with "Segmentation fault 
> (core dumped)" when I run it (on boot or manually) 
> from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald
> 
> Another thing I see is that artsd consumes 90-98% CPU (on dual-core system), 
> yet kde thinks it can't start the sound system (even though sound works from 
> audio cd's and videos played via kmplayer).  KDE tries repeatedly to start 
> the sound system, and launches a new artsd process for each try .... 
> 
> I recognize that this is mosly KDE stuff, and much of these rely 
> upon /usr/ports/devel/ffmpeg (rather than /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg), but 
> it only started after upgrading to 6.2-STABLE, so I thought I'd try here 
> first, to see if anyone has similar experience and any pointers.  There are 
> no relevant bugs at bugs.freebsd.org, or at bugs.kde.org ... so I'm kinda 
> fishin', I guess :)
> 
> Clearly this is not critical, nor am I suffering from significantly reduced 
> functionality.  But if anyone is of a mind to point me in the right 
> direction, I'd be much obliged.
> 
> lane

Did you upgrade your ports yet?  You will need to but I would probably wait until
after XOrg 7.2 is brought into the tree.

Duane