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hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

I installed RealPlayer 10 from AUR. After installation, I found that I can only run it as root user. If I run "/opt/realplayer/realplay" from my daily account, it returns following error message and does not start up:

/opt/realplayer/realplay: line 75:  8813 Segmentation fault      $REALPLAYBIN "$@"

This is part of the result of "ls -l /opt/realplayer/":

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2502 2008-02-01 21:58 realplay
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 570344 2008-02-01 21:58 realplay.bin

How could I solve this? Thanks in advance.

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

I have the same permissions. Is your user in the correct groups?

$ ls -l /opt/realplayer/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2521 2008-02-04 22:52 realplay
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 570344 2008-02-04 22:52 realplay.bin

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hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

It is in the video group and audio group.

Shaika-Dzari

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-04-14

Posts: 436

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Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

Just to be curious, do you have a "vital" reason to use realplayer?

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McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

And the dependent pkgs listed in AUR are installed? I'm not seeing anything odd in the permissions.

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hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

I use Real Player because mplayer does not play my rmvb movies.

All the depends are correctly installed.

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

My only guess then would be that perhaps your sound server or another sound app is blocking the program from opening. If you are using ESD for example kill that and then try to start realplayer again. Also, when you do retry pass the --new option to the command.

$ killall esd <or another sound server>
$ realplay -n

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hk2717

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From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

I ran htop and did not find any sound server running, maybe it belongs to kernel process. However I already uninstalled RealPlayer when I found that mplayer with "codecs" packages plays rmvb movies perfectly.

Thank you anyway.

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: Unable to run RealPlayer other than root

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43529

but still use mplayer over realplayer