RealPlayer (was: Re: [Gllug] BBCi)

[Dylan]

On Friday 21 March 2003 10:40, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Thu 20 Mar Dylan wrote:
> > Well, I'm on SuSE8.1, and no - RP doesn't do anything which leaves the
> > system requiring a reboot, but... I find that it will (either or all of)
> > (a) refuse to connect (even to a local file); (b) spontaneously abend; or
> > (c) play a stream (or local file) for a few seconds before freezing -
> > requiring a kill. The only way to get RP working again in this situation
> > is a reboot.
>
> This means that when it dies it'll be leaving something lying around.
> I'd check for processes owned by you that look like they might be
> realplayer, especially if their ppid is 1.

I'll check this out next time...

>
> I don't think it uses them, but another possibility is unix domain
> sockets left lying around (also known as named pipes).

How or where would I go about finding them?

>
> It'll be some resource it's not cleaning up anyhow.  Much better to find
> out what it is than reboot - you learn nothing about how to fix the
> problem in the future if you reboot.

Hence why I ask the list.

Dylan
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