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Holger Lubitz wrote:

|   Hi,
|   
|   I tried posting this before, but apparently it didn't get through to the
|   list.
|   The following are the final lines of a strace of a failing mplayer:
|   
|   [...]
|   modify_ldt(0x1, 0xbffff85c, 0x10)       = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate
|   memory)
|   --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
|   +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Do you have an NTFS disk mounted? I had a similar problem which was
"fixed" by not having an NTFS vol mounted. Apparently the ntfs code
makes a lot of calls to vmalloc which leads to badness.

See http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.1/0878.html
if interested.

Leigh Orf

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