Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

[dhk]

Saphirus Sage wrote:
> dhk wrote:
>> I originally posted this question to the kino group.  The chain of
>> emails is below.
>>
>> The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a
>> folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the
>> command line.  I removed and reinstalled kino, but the same thing
>> happens.  I compiled the source manually and the problem wasn't
>> there.  Now I think it has something to do with the Gentoo environment
>> or the ebuild.
>>
>> One thing I noticed on my system is that in
>> /usr/portage/media-video/kino there are two ebuilds a 1.3.1 and a
>> 1.3.3 I have 1.3.1 installed. The diffs to these files are as follows.
>>
>> $ diff kino-1.3.1.ebuild kino-1.3.3.ebuild
>> 1c1
>> < # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
>> ---
>>> # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
>> 3c3
>> < # $Header:
>> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/kino/kino-1.3.1.ebuild,v 1.7
>> 2008/12/21 14:44:31 nixnut Exp $
>> ---
>>> # $Header:
>> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/kino/kino-1.3.3.ebuild,v 1.1
>> 2009/03/29 13:39:42 patrick Exp $
>> 11c11
>> < KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
>> ---
>>> KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
>> 29a30
>>>     dev-util/intltool
>> I'm not sure if the 1.3.3 file is causing a problem somehow.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> dhk
>>
>> Dan Dennedy wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:54 AM, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>>>> Dan Dennedy wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:08 AM, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>>>>>> dhk wrote:
>>>>>>> Carl Karsten wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:27 AM, dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I don't edit video very often so I don't know exactly when this
>>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>>> started.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Whenever I try to open a file kino crashes.  It starts fine,
>>>>>>>>> but as
>>>>>>>>> soon
>>>>>>>>> as I try to open a .kino, .dv and other type files it crashes.
>>>>>>>>> When
>>>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>>>> in the kino gui the crash occurs when I click on the folder
>>>>>>>>> that has
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> .kino file.  On the command line it crashes when I pass the
>>>>>>>>> file in as
>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> parameter.
>>>>> More than likely the libdv or libavcodec libraries changed somehow and
>>>>> Kino needs to be rebuilt. If you are going to rebuild it, see if there
>>>>> is a v1.3.3, the latest release, available - it will clear up many of
>>>>> those GTK+ warnings.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> post the command line and resulting output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> /Video/Capture/MomAndDad50thAnniversary $ kino take1.kino
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> Kino experienced a segmentation fault.
>>>>> $ gdb kino
>>>>> (gdb) run take1.kino
>>>>> ...segfault
>>>>> (gdb) where
>>>>>
>>>>> send the output.
>>>>>
>>>> I think the problem is in the environment or setup somewhere.  I
>>>> don't have
>>>> the answer, but I think I'm getting closer.  So please bear with me
>>>> as I
>>>> explain.
>>>>
>>>> First)  This is kino version 1.3.1 I'm working with.  There isn't any
>>>> libavcodec package in the portage tree as far as I've seen, but
>>>> there is a
>>>> libavc1394 version 0.5.3. The highest version of lbdv is 1.0.0-r2.
>>> I do not know the gentoo package names; libavcodec is a part of FFmeg.
>>>
>>> $ ldd $(which kino)
>>> and see if it is linked to a libavcodec
>>>
>>>> Second)  I tried compiling the source so I could run the program
>>>> through the
>>>> gdb debugger.  When I ran the program without gdb it runs fine, but
>>>> the same
>>>> problem exists with the crashing.  However, when running the program
>>>> through
>>>> gdb it SIGSEGV because it can't find the magick.glade and kino.glade
>>>> file.
>>>>  The program was looking for them in /usr/local/share/kino/ and that
>>>> path
>>>> and the file don't exist.
>>> You have to install it to put resources in the expected location.
>>>
>>>> Third) Then I did a make clean and ran configure with my own
>>>> --prefix and
>>>> copied the two .glade file to that location.  I redid the steps above
>>>> running kino with and without gdb and to my surprise everything worked.
>>>>  Except for some missing icons , which is understandable since I
>>>> change the
>>>> --prefix, everything I tested was functional.  I could open files
>>>> and play
>>>> them.
>>> Like I said, Kino needed to be rebuilt for some reason or another. Or,
>>> something special about the gentoo build is triggering a bug.
>>>
>>>> So now is the problem with the way kino is getting installed on
>>>> Gentoo amd64
>>>> or am I picking up older files from previous versions that don't
>>>> work?  Any
>>>> ideas?  I think we're getting closer?
>>> Remove it entirely, re-emerge it. If the problem remains, file a bug
>>> with gentoo. If there is a patch that belongs upstream, someone should
>>> attach it to the Kino SourceForge tracker. Kino is no longer actively
>>> maintained, so someone needs to step up if they need it to work for
>>> them because no one else is going out of there way to resolve issues
>>> for various environments.
>>>
>>
> I've only been using Kino for a short time, but 1.3.3 has been perfectly
> find on my amd64 system. Consider unmasking it and installing that
> version, see if that gets around whatever the problem is.
>
>

I don't see a version 1.3.3 on my amd64, but I seem to have an ebuild 
for it.  I don't think I have it masked either.  All I see is 
media-video/kino gstreamer dvdr sox in the package.use file.

# emerge --search kino
!!! CONFIG_PROTECT is emptySearching...
[ Results for search key : kino ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-video/kino
       Latest version available: 1.3.1
       Latest version installed: 1.3.1
       Size of files: 10,804 kB
       Homepage:      http://www.kinodv.org/
       Description:   Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux
       License:       GPL-2