On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:32PM -0400, Scott Bartram wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with the Linix RealAudio player. I hope it's just
> > something silly like a missing symlink. Here are the facts:
> [...]
> > * RealAudio player version 5.0 (free) says:
> > 
> > 	File compression not supported. Cannot locate the
> > 	requested RealAudio decoder.
> 
> Wait, wait, don't tell me.. I know this one.. Ok, I forgot :) Actually,
> I think this means that it cannot load the right .so file. I remember
> working around this by putting a script around the Linux rvplayer
> that did something like "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/dir/with/sofiles rvplayer.real"

OK, now that I moved the shared libs from /usr/local/lib to
/emul/linux/lib (it was late...) I've stopped getting the "decoder"
message. Now it just connects to the remote site, correctly displays the
name, title, etc. and just sits there telling me it's buffering the clip.
Using ktrace, it goes into an endless loop of the following:

   252 rvplayer CALL  time(0xefbfce94)
   252 rvplayer RET   time 898116019/0x358829b3
   252 rvplayer CALL  gettimeofday(0xefbfce8c,0)
   252 rvplayer RET   gettimeofday 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  oldselect(0xefbfd210)
   252 rvplayer RET   oldselect -1 errno -9 Unknown error: 4294967287
   252 rvplayer CALL  ioctl(0x3,_IO('T',0x1b,0),0xefbfc9dc)
   252 rvplayer RET   ioctl 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  ioctl(0x3,_IO('T',0x1b,0),0xefbfc9dc)
   252 rvplayer RET   ioctl 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  oldselect(0xefbfcfc0)
   252 rvplayer RET   oldselect 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  gettimeofday(0xefbfce7c,0)
   252 rvplayer RET   gettimeofday 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  sigprocmask(0,0xefbfce68,0xefbfce64)
   252 rvplayer RET   sigprocmask 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  read(0x4,0x8199518,0x7fbc)
   252 rvplayer RET   read -1 errno -11 Unknown error: 4294967285
   252 rvplayer CALL  sigprocmask(0x2,0xefbfce64,0)
   252 rvplayer RET   sigprocmask 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  sigprocmask(0,0xefbfce6c,0xefbfce68)
   252 rvplayer RET   sigprocmask 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  read(0x5,0x8199518,0x7fbc)
   252 rvplayer RET   read -1 errno -11 Unknown error: 4294967285
   252 rvplayer CALL  sigprocmask(0x2,0xefbfce68,0)
   252 rvplayer RET   sigprocmask 0
   252 rvplayer CALL  time(0xefbfce94)
   252 rvplayer RET   time 898116019/0x358829b3
   252 rvplayer CALL  gettimeofday(0xefbfce8c,0)
   252 rvplayer RET   gettimeofday 0