From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.0.7-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Since kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 update, the system freezes when gmplayer (or kplayer) is launched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.30.pre7try2.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4.i686.rpm 2. Run gmplayer Actual Results: freezes on: [~]$ gmplayer MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Additional info:
I have also seen this behaviour but not systematic on my Opteron system (FC4 x86_64).
what graphics driver is in use ?
Resolution 1024x768 Color Depth: Thousands of Colors Monitor Type: Samsung SyncMaster 793DF Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) Driver "nv" (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) Card: XFX GeForce FX 5200 128MB
Solved in kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 :)
marking resolved:errata as per comment #4.