Bug#627197: mplayer2 dies with signal 4 (illegal instruction) on an Altivec-enabled iBook G4

[Rogério Brito]

Package: mplayer2
Version: 2.0-54-gd33877a-1
Severity: important

Hi there.

The machine where I do a good amount of my development is an iBook G4 and I
was just trying to play a video, and I am having problems with it dying with
a signal 4 (illegal instruction).

I have not yet verified what instruction is the one that is making it die,
but this is somewhat surprising: I would expect this to happen with an
Altivec binary being run on a non-Altivec enabled processor (e.g., my iBook
G3), but not in this case.

Of course, I can give further details, but as I said in another e-mail, I am
busy moving home etc.


Thanks,

Rogério Brito.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (2000, 'unstable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer2 depends on:
ii  libaa1               1.4p5-38+b1         ascii art library
ii  libasound2           1.0.23-4            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2            1.9.2-7             Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libc6                2.13-4              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0             0.99.beta17-1       colour ASCII art library
ii  libcdparanoia0       3.10.2+debian-10    audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libdca0              0.0.5-4             decoding library for DTS Coherent 
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9    1.2.10.0-4+b1       direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libdvdnav4           4.1.3-7             DVD navigation library
ii  libdvdread4          4.1.3-10            library for reading DVDs
ii  libenca0             1.13-4              Extremely Naive Charset Analyser -
ii  libesd0              0.2.41-9            Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfaad2             2.7-6               freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - 
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-2.2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.4-1             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0          0.19.2-1            Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1              1:4.6.0-7           GCC support library
ii  libgif4              4.1.6-9             library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.10.2-2            free implementation of the OpenGL 
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0. 1:0.120.1+svn4142-1 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62            6b1-1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0       0.9.0~pre1-1        infra-red remote control support -
ii  libncurses5          5.9-1               shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0              1.2.2~dfsg-1        Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.44-2            PNG library - runtime
ii  libpulse0            0.9.21-4            PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian      1.2.14-6.3          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient         2:3.5.8~dfsg-1      shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1-1           The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6           4.6.0-7             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0           1.1.1+dfsg.1-3      The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvdpau1            0.4.1-2             Video Decode and Presentation API 
ii  libvorbis0a          1.3.2-1             The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6             2:1.4.3-1           X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.0-1           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1         2:1.1.1-1           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6               1:1.1.1-1           X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1               2:1.0.6-1           X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1         2:1.1.2-1           X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1          1:1.1.1-1           X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3    compression library - runtime

mplayer2 recommends no packages.

mplayer2 suggests no packages.

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