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Realplayer Segmentation Fault

Asked by Qiming Liu

I have installed Realplayer from a deb package, but I cannot open it at all. Running it through terminal gives me

qiming@qiming-desktop:~> realplayer
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

any ideas?

thx

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

well this is obviously a segmentation fault :P

have you tried re-installing it?

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Qiming Liu (qooroo) said : 		#2

5th time...still the same msg.

this is silly. i have a freshly installed feisty and this .bin is from official realplayer site for linux...so it should work...

i couldnt find it on synaptic - is there a way to do that?

thx

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Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca) said : 		#3

You probably want to install the 'helix-player' package. Or, redownload the .bin from the RealPlayer site, and try reinstalling with that.

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Johan Dahl (johan-dahl) said : 		#4

I tried both the ubuntu deb file and .bin and converted the rpm to .deb. The all work really bad. Sound is jerky and if I try to select settings will I get a segmantation fault.

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Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca) said : 		#5

What's your sound card? How much ram? CPU?

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grkumar123 (grkumar123) said : 		#6

The solution mentioned in the following article worked for me..

http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/index.php?title=UbuntuHelp:RealPlayerInstallationMethods&variant=zh-tw

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RealPlayer might not start if using SCIM as the default input method. When trying to launch from the terminal one gets the error message

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This issue can be resolved by setting the environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE to the value xim (instead of scim).

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

After typing this in a terminal, RealPlayer can be started from this terminal. In order to make this setting the default, one can for example write a small shell script which first sets the above environment variable and then launches the RealPlayer

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