Since I follow the list religiously I've seen reference to strace on several occasions but not till this weekend did I have a use for it myself. Quick intro... I got tired of 64bit huludesktop/flash not working for me (on my F12 x86_64 systems) so I decided to install the 32bit version instead. All went pretty smooth on my desktop so I must have had all the critical dependencies already installed from some other 32bit package. Then I did the same thing on my MythTV box. First it kept complaining about not being able to find libflashplayer.so even though I put a copy of it in my home directory and had it setup correctly in ".huludesktop" So after playing around with it a bit getting nowhere I decided to try ldd libflashsupport and low and behold I had several "not found"'s. So after fixing all of those via "yum whatprovides..." It finally "found flash" but then started giving me segmentation faults. After trying things like "ldconfig" and rebooting going nowhere I remember someone on the list using strace to figure out why something was crashing so I figured what the heck. There was so much information flying past it took me a minute but I starting seeing some other libraries that it was not finding so after yumming those in it finally worked! I was very surprised that even though I installed both huludesktop from an rpm and flash from the adobe yum repo that I still had to manually bring in dependencies, but oh well. I wonder what else I've learned without even knowing it though "osmosis" reading the mailing list. Thanks, Richard M. Shaw -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
