SoundServer crashes

[Paul Horechuk]

How do I track the source of soundserver crashes?
Since upgrading via source from 6.3 to 7.0 (currently 7.1 PRERELEASE), I 
often get a crash message. 

The application Soundserver (artsd) crashed and caused the signal 11 
(SIGSEGV).

The backtrace reports:

This backtrace appears to be of no use.
This is probably because your packages are built in a way which prevents 
creation of proper backtraces, or the stack frame was seriously corrupted 
in the crash.

Abort trap (core dumped)

I do get a gdnc.core in the root directory.

gdb gdnc.core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"..."/gdnc.core": not in 
executable format: File format not recognized

Sometimes it works, but most often doesn't.

/var/log/messages reports:
Sep 10 17:42:00 paul kernel: pid 22404 (gdb), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 
(core dumped)

I've been using portupgrade -P to upgrade any and all ports. I have 1013 
ports installed on a P3/550 system. It takes a loooong time to re-install 
all ports. Most have been recompiled since the initial upgrade to FreeBSD 
7, due to libc.so.6 links. This last issue has been plaguing me since early 
July. KDE was upgraded from 3.5.8 to its current 3.5.10.

With the exception of:

Wed Sep 10 13:12:41 EDT 2008
ImageMagick-6.4.3.4                 <   needs updating (port has 6.4.3.6)
acroreadwrapper-0.0.20080110        <   needs updating (port has 
0.0.20080906)
cups-base-1.3.7_4                   <   needs updating (port has 1.3.8_1)
ghostscript-gpl-8.62_3              <   needs updating (port has 8.62_5)
gstreamer-plugins-all-1.3.0.10.1_4  <   needs updating (port has 
1.3.0.10.1_5)
gstreamer-plugins-spc-0.10.5_1,3    <   needs updating (port has 0.10.8_3,3)
gstreamer-plugins-swfdec-0.10.4,2   <   needs updating (port has 0.10.8_3,3)
jdk-1.5.0.14p8_2,1                  <   needs updating (port has 
1.5.0.14p8_3,1)
linux-flashplugin-9.0r124           <   needs updating (port has 9.0r124_1)
liveMedia-2008.07.25,1              <   needs updating (port has 
2008.09.02,1)
lsof-4.81A,2                        <   needs updating (port has 4.81D,2)
py25-cairo-1.4.12                   <   needs updating (port has 1.6.4)
python25-2.5.2_2                    <   needs updating (port has 2.5.2_3)
qt4-gui-4.4.1                       <   needs updating (port has 4.4.1_1)
samba-3.0.31_1,1                    <   needs updating (port has 3.0.32_1,1)
samba-libsmbclient-3.0.31_1         <   needs updating (port has 3.0.32_1)
xmps-win32-plugin-0.0.4_8           <   needs updating (port has 0.0.4_9)

everything else is up to date.

What other information does anyone need for this?

-- 
Paul Horechuk
      Think Free 
Use Open Source Software

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