[arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

[fredbezies]

2012/6/16 Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com>

> Hello,
> ** fredbezies [2012-06-16 11:26:13 +0200]:
>
> > 2012/6/16 solsTiCe d'Hiver <solstice.dhiver at gmail.com>
>
> >> Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 09:57 +0200, fredbezies a écrit :
> >>> Hello.
>
> >>> Got this error when I try to start totem today :
>
> >>> [fred at fredo-arch ~]$ totem &
> >>> [1] 7902
> >>> [fred at fredo-arch ~]$
> >>> (totem:7902): Grilo-WARNING **: [plugin-registry]
> >>> grl-plugin-registry.c:623: Failed to open module:
> >>> '/usr/lib/grilo-0.1/libgrlupnp.so'
>
> >>> [1]+  Segmentation fault      totem
>
> >>> I verified, and of course, I have "/usr/lib/grilo-0.1/libgrlupnp.so"
> >>> installed. Any idea or tip ? Thanks !
>
> >> I got that error from time to time when I run pacman -Syu and it updates
> >> the nvidia driver.
> >> So my best bet would be that you just reboot to see if it changes
> >> anything or not.
>
>
> > Guessed it right; Too bad it is sometimes too "windows-like" with nvidia
> > driver updates :|
>
> Too bad that whose who don't known the basics try to make such deep
> conclusion.
>

Don't know the basics ? Just using linux since christmas 2004...


>
> The last time I really need to reboot after graphics driver update
> was when I updated kernel too (actually I updated kernel several times
> without rebooting before I updated the NVIDA driver and reboot).
>

Rebooting is sometimes the cleanest and the better way to be sure modules
are correctly loaded.


>
> IMHO, the minimal steps to use new NVIDIA driver are
> 1. shutdown X system;
> 2. logout as usual user and login as root;
> 3. unload nvidia (kernel) module;
> 4. load new nvidia (kernel) module;
> 5. start X system.
>
>
Well, it could be a solution, but a reboot is quicker and less hard to set
up.


> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>
>
> --
> Well, the handwriting is on the floor.
>                -- Joe E. Lewis
>



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