On my system I have just installed using bumped Gentoo ebuilds v4l-utils package [ebuild R ] media-libs/libv4l-0.8.9::bigvo 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-tv/v4l-utils-0.8.9::bigvo USE="-qt4" 0 kB ebuilds used for bumbing to version 0.8.9: http://gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/libv4l/libv4l-0.8.8 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-tv/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-0.8.8-r1 However I experienced a segfault trying to run this command: ir-keytable --protocol=rc-6 --device /dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0038-event-if00 Trace I got in gdb: gdb ir-keytable core GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.5 p1) 7.5 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/ir-keytable...done. [New LWP 11090] warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1. Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"? Core was generated by `ir-keytable --protocol=rc-6 --device /dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0038-event-if00'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007fd1c6bdd410 in __strcpy_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007fd1c6bdd410 in __strcpy_chk () from /lib64/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00000000004037bc in strcpy (__src=<optimized out>, __dest=0x7fff0a823010 "") at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:105 No locals. #2 v1_set_hw_protocols (rc_dev=<optimized out>) at keytable.c:758 fp = <optimized out> name = '\000' <repeats 1480 times>, "`\327\350\306\321\177", '\000' <repeats 75 times>, "p\031\000\000\000\000\000~m\031\000\000\000\000\000~m\031", '\000' <repeats 13 times>, "\005\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000p9\000\000\000\000\000\000\320\071\000\000\000\000\000X\307\071\000\000\000\000\000`\f:\000\000\000\000\000\000p\031\000\000\000\000\000\003", '\000' <repeats 271 times>, "@F\n\307\321\177\000\000/\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\215\027\351\306\321\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\t\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\021\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\001", '\000' <repeats 23 times>, "p9\202\n\377\177\000\000\031\024\351\306\321\177\000\000\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000XF\n\307\321\177\000\000p9\202\n\377\177\000\000\265\326\350\306\321\177", '\000' <repeats 26 times>... #3 0x00000000004019af in set_proto (rc_dev=0x7fff0a824030) at keytable.c:1153 rc = 0 #4 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at keytable.c:1531 dev_from_class = <optimized out> write_cnt = 0 fd = 3 names = 0x0 rc_dev = {sysfs_name = 0x0, input_name = 0x7fd1c70a74e0 "@t\n\307\321\177", drv_name = 0x0, keytable_name = 0x100000000 <Address 0x100000000 out of bounds>, version = (unknown: 3339351856), type = (SOFTWARE_DECODER | unknown: 32720), supported = 4196936, current = RC_6} ------ ir-keytable Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event12) with: Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad Supported protocols: RC-6 other Enabled protocols: Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms ------ dmesg |grep imon [ 4.783532] Registered IR keymap rc-imon-pad [ 4.789794] imon 9-3:1.0: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf0) on usb<9:2> initialized [ 4.789849] imon 9-3:1.1: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf1) on usb<9:2> initialized [ 4.789885] usbcore: registered new interface driver imon Please take a look what might be wrong here Regards, Wojciech Myrda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html