Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

[dhk]

dhk wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Never mind I found it.  Version 1.3.3 was masked.  I had to add 
media-video/kino ~amd64 to the package.keywords file.  Now the problem 
is gone.  Thanks all.