Floating point exception when starting vlc 1.1.7 on openSuSE 11.4
on a fairly pristine openSUSE 11.4 installation: = 32-bit system = KDE4 interface = Nvidia Geforce 6200
Binary-only driver installed: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default 260.19.36_k2.6.37.1_1.2-23.1 x11-video-nvidiaG02 260.19.36-24.1
vlc installed: libvlc5 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1 libvlccore4 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1 phonon-backend-vlc 0.3.2-1.pm.2.1 vlc 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1 vlc-debuginfo 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1 vlc-noX 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1 vlc-qt 1.1.7-3.pm.17.1
from packman repository: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/openSUSE_11.4/
vlc fails to start. Messages on the command line: stephan@linux-lbvm:~> vlc VLC media player 1.1.7 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE") [0x80503fc] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") Blocked: call to dlopen("/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/gui_platform/libkde.so", 1) Floating point exception
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