Bug#404113: linphone-nox: linphonec segfaults without framebuffer

[Harald Geyer]

Package: linphone-nox
Version: 1.5.1-1
Severity: important

Hi,

I just installed linphone-nox on an etch system and got the following
error message:

>       ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
>             (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
>             (c) 2002-2004  convergence GmbH
>        -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-10-17 10:09)
>(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using linux kernel memcpy()
>(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
>    --> No such file or directory
>(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
>(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment 
variable.
>(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
>    --> Initialization error!
>ortp-error-Couldn't initialize SDL: DirectFBCreate: Initialization error!
>ortp-error-MSV4l: cannot open video device (/dev/video0): No such file or 
directory.
>Speicherzugriffsfehler

The last line is the german term for segementation fault.

On the same system the x-version seems to work fine. After doing
modprobe vga16fb linphonec works fine also.

I'm somewhat surprised to see a package with uitoolkit::ncurses 
depend on libsdl1.2debian and thus libdirectfb. If it was only
to make the linker happy, so be it (though I'd still consider this
unnecessary bloat), but permanently activating framebuffer is not
an option, because it's way slower.

Regards,
Harald

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_AT at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages linphone-nox depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblinphone1                 1.5.1-1     linphone web phone's library (supp
ii  libmediastreamer0            1.5.1-1     linphone web phone's media library
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libortp5                     1.5.1-1     Real-time Transport Protocol stack
ii  libosip2-3                   2.2.2-3.1   Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) 
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-1       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  linphone-common              1.5.1-1     web phone

linphone-nox recommends no packages.

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