This happens to me on a Pentium 4 without even passing any parameters: % mplayer zsh: illegal hardware instruction (core dumped) mplayer
Running through gdb as above shows: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/mplayer [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. 0x080dd52e in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x080dd52e in ?? () #1 0x080d95c4 in ?? () #2 0x080e1404 in m_config_parse_config_file () #3 0x08086cfd in main () (gdb) disas No function contains program counter for selected frame. (gdb) I reported this as bug #974774 before looking more carefully at this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974125 Title: mplayer crashes with illegal instruction To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer2/+bug/974125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs