I switched to RatPoisen and no error.

From the forthcomming attachment that I can't figure out how to attach now:

Line 2 got steped on by me hitting backspace to fix my typing
DIAS  SPLAY=:0.0 gdb mplayer
should be 
DISPLAY=:0.0 gdb mplayer

interesting stuff at line 141:

X11 error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Type: 0, display: 859d2e8, resourceid: e00001, serial: 60
Error code: 9, request code: e, minor code: 0

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xb769e4c1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb769e4c1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7bdaba1 in pthread_kill () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xb7bdaf1b in raise () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3  0xb769e274 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0xb769f7a8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x08097a79 in x11_errorhandler (display=0x0, event=0x83c9d80)
    at x11_common.c:207
#6  0xb79ac7ac in _XError () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#7  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) disass $pc-32 $pc+32
Dump of assembler code from 0xb769e4a1 to 0xb769e4e1:
0xb769e4a1 <sigprocmask+65>:(bad)  
0xb769e4a2 <sigprocmask+66>:decl   0xffffbe30(%ecx)
0xb769e4a8 <sigprocmask+72>:(bad)  
0xb769e4a9 <sigprocmask+73>:ljmp   *%ebx
0xb769e4ab <sigprocmask+75>:jecxz  0xb769e43d <sigaction+61>
0xb769e4ad <sigprocmask+77>:nop    
0xb769e4ae <sigprocmask+78>:nop    
0xb769e4af <sigprocmask+79>:nop    
0xb769e4b0 <kill+0>:mov    %ebx,%edx
0xb769e4b2 <kill+2>:mov    0x8(%esp),%ecx
0xb769e4b6 <kill+6>:mov    0x4(%esp),%ebx
0xb769e4ba <kill+10>:mov    $0x25,%eax
0xb769e4bf <kill+15>:int    $0x80
0xb769e4c1 <kill+17>:mov    %edx,%ebx
0xb769e4c3 <kill+19>:cmp    $0xfffff001,%eax
0xb769e4c8 <kill+24>:jae    0xb769e4cb <kill+27>
0xb769e4ca <kill+26>:ret    
0xb769e4cb <kill+27>:push   %ebx
0xb769e4cc <kill+28>:call   0xb768aabd <_fini+126445>
0xb769e4d1 <kill+33>:add    $0x102dcf,%ebx
0xb769e4d7 <kill+39>:xor    %edx,%edx
0xb769e4d9 <kill+41>:sub    %eax,%edx
0xb769e4db <kill+43>:push   %edx
0xb769e4dc <kill+44>:call   0xb768a9ec <_fini+126236>
End of assembler dump.