Segmentation fault with gst-register

[John Williams <jwilliams business otago ac nz>]

Hi team!

Trying to build garnome 19.3 on RH 8.0 crashes at this point:

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[jwilliams localhost gnome-desktop]$ gst-register
INFO (18502: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.4.2
INFO (18502: 0) CPU features: (c1c3f9ff) MMX SSE 3DNOW MMXEXT
rebuilding global_registry
added plugin sdlvideosink with 1 feature(s)
added plugin snapshot with 1 feature(s)
added plugin cdplayer with 1 feature(s)
added plugin wavenc with 1 feature(s)
added plugin videotestsrc with 1 feature(s)
added plugin videocrop with 1 feature(s)
added plugin smpte with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gstvideo with 0 feature(s)
added plugin gstoptomegascheduler with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gstfastwingoscheduler with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gstfastomegascheduler with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gstbasicwingoscheduler with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gstbasicomegascheduler with 1 feature(s)
added plugin lame with 1 feature(s)
added plugin mikmod with 2 feature(s)
added plugin mad with 1 feature(s)
added plugin jpeg with 2 feature(s)
added plugin gnomevfssink with 1 feature(s)
added plugin gnomevfssrc with 1 feature(s)
added plugin esdmon with 1 feature(s)
added plugin esdsink with 1 feature(s)
Segmentation fault
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any clues?  What other clues do I need to provide?

TIA

John

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John Williams
Department of Marketing
Otago University
Dunedin, New Zealand