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Bug 194300 - media-video/vlc-0.8.6c crashes with error while startup
Summary: media-video/vlc-0.8.6c crashes with error while startup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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: 194872 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 197186
Blocks:
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Reported: 2007-09-30 18:31 UTC by Denny Reeh
Modified: 2007-12-12 06:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Denny Reeh 2007-09-30 18:31:59 UTC
at startup, vlc crashes. programm doesn't start. Both, ob amd64 and i386 system.


VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000008cd350 ***



======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2b7562e36b1d]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x76)[0x2b7562e38146]
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0[0x2aaaac432da9]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN5wxvlc8MessagesC1EP13intf_thread_tP8wxWindow+0x531)[0x2aaaab819d21]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN15DialogsProviderC1EP13intf_thread_tP8wxWindow+0x1ea)[0x2aaaab7ded7a]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_Z21CreateDialogsProviderP13intf_thread_tP8wxWindow+0x34)[0x2aaaab7df314]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN8Instance6OnInitEv+0x7d)[0x2aaaab7b328d]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN12wxAppConsole10CallOnInitEv+0xd)[0x2aaaab7b434d]
/usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0(_Z7wxEntryRiPPw+0x22)[0x2aaaac9955e2]
/usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so[0x2aaaab7b34ec]
/usr/lib/libvlc.so.0[0x2b756223351d]
/usr/lib/libvlc.so.0(intf_RunThread+0x5a)[0x2b756223368a]
/usr/lib/libvlc.so.0[0x2b75622310eb]
vlc[0x400bb0]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2b7562de9374]
vlc[0x400a59]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 8192334                            /usr/bin/vlc
00501000-00502000 rw-p 00001000 08:03 8192334                            /usr/bin/vlc
00502000-0094d000 rw-p 00502000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
40000000-40001000 ---p 40000000 00:00 0 
40001000-40801000 rw-p 40001000 00:00 0 
40801000-40802000 ---p 40801000 00:00 0 
40802000-41002000 rw-p 40802000 00:00 0 
41002000-41003000 ---p 41002000 00:00 0 
41003000-41803000 rw-p 41003000 00:00 0 
41803000-41804000 ---p 41803000 00:00 0 
41804000-42004000 rw-p 41804000 00:00 0 
42004000-42005000 ---p 42004000 00:00 0 
42005000-42805000 rw-p 42005000 00:00 0 
42805000-42806000 ---p 42805000 00:00 0 
42806000-43006000 rw-p 42806000 00:00 0 
43006000-43007000 ---p 43006000 00:00 0 
43007000-43807000 rw-p 43007000 00:00 0 
2aaaaaaab000-2aaaaaaad000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 8126591                    /usr/lib64/vlc/visualization/libxosd_plugin.so
2aaaaaaad000-2aaaaabad000 ---p 00002000 08:03 8126591                    /usr/lib64/vlc/visualization/libxosd_plugin.so
2aaaaabad000-2aaaaabae000 rw-p 00002000 08:03 8126591                    /usr/lib64/vlc/visualization/libxosd_plugin.so
2aaaaabae000-2aaaaabaf000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062224                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_IDENTIFICATION
2aaaaabaf000-2aaaaabb0000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062221                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_MEASUREMENT
2aaaaabb0000-2aaaaabb1000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062220                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_TELEPHONE
2aaaaabb1000-2aaaaabb2000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062218                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_ADDRESS
2aaaaabb2000-2aaaaabb3000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062216                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_NAME
2aaaaabb3000-2aaaaabb4000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062214                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_PAPER
2aaaaabb4000-2aaaaabb5000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062212                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_MONETARY
2aaaaabb5000-2aaaaabba000 r--p 00000000 08:03 6111335                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_COLLATE
2aaaaabba000-2aaaaabbb000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062206                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_TIME
2aaaaabbb000-2aaaaabbc000 r--p 00000000 08:03 7062205                    /usr/lib64/locale/de_DE/LC_NUMERIC
2aaaaabbc000-2aaaaabcd000 r--p 00000000 08:03 4671871                    /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo
2aaaaabd1000-2aaaaabd7000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4720182                    /usr/lib64/libxosd.so.2.2.14
2aaaaabd7000-2aaaaacd6000 ---p 00006000 08:03 4720182                    /usr/lib64/libxosd.so.2.2.14
2aaaaacd6000-2aaaaacd7000 rw-p 00005000 08:03 4720182                    /usr/lib64/libxosd.so.2.2.14
2aaaaacd7000-2aaaaace7000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4738610                    /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2aaaaace7000-2aaaaade7000 ---p 00010000 08:03 4738610                    /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2aaaaade7000-2aaaaade8000 rw-p 00010000 08:03 4738610                    /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2aaaaade8000-2aaaaaee9000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 5587172                    /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2aaaaaee9000-2aaaaafe8000 ---p 00101000 08:03 5587172                    /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2aaaaafe8000-2aaaaafef000 rw-p 00100000 08:03 5587172                    /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2aaaaafef000-2aaaaaff1000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4738281                    /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2aaaaaff1000-2aaaab0f1000 ---p 00002000 08:03 4738281                    /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2aaaab0f1000-2aaaab0f2000 rw-p 00002000 08:03 4738281                    /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2aaaab0f2000-2aaaab0f7000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 5406790                    /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2aaaab0f7000-2aaaab1f6000 ---p 00005000 08:03 5406790                    /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2aaaab1f6000-2aaaab1f7000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 5406790                    /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2aaaab1f7000-2aaaab201000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 8978446                    /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
2aaaab201000-2aaaab300000 ---p 0000a000 08:03 8978446                    /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
2aaaab300000-2aaaab301000 rw-p 00009000 08:03 8978446                    /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
2aaaab301000-2aaaab30a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4738395                    /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2aaaab30a000-2aaaab409000 ---p 00009000 08:03 4738395                    /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2aaaab409000-2aaaab40a000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 4738395                    /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2aaaab40a000-2aaaab40f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4243667                    /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
2aaaab40f000-2aaaab50e000 ---p 00005000 08:03 4243667                    /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
2aaaab50e000-2aaaab50f000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 4243667                    /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
2aaaab50f000-2aaaab513000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7864481                    /usr/lib64/vlc/control/libhotkeys_plugin.so
2aaaab513000-2aaaab613000 ---p 00004000 08:03 7864481                    /usr/lib64/vlc/control/libhotkeys_plugin.so
2aaaab613000-2aaaab614000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 7864481                    /usr/lib64/vlc/control/libhotkeys_plugin.so
2aaaab614000-2aaaab615000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7930030                    /usr/lib64/vlc/misc/libscreensaver_plugin.so
2aaaab615000-2aaaab714000 ---p 00001000 08:03 7930030                    /usr/lib64/vlc/misc/libscreensaver_plugin.so
2aaaab714000-2aaaab715000 rw-p 00000000 08:03 7930030                    /usr/lib64/vlc/misc/libscreensaver_plugin.so
2aaaab715000-2aaaab8a4000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7913818                    /usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
2aaaab8a4000-2aaaab9a3000 ---p 0018f000 08:03 7913818                    /usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
2aaaab9a3000-2aaaab9ca000 rw-p 0018e000 08:03 7913818                    /usr/lib64/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
2aaaab9ca000-2aaaab9d1000 rw-p 2aaaab9ca000 00:00 0 
2aaaab9f4000-2aaaaba1f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4836619                    /usr/lib64/libvcdinfo.so.0.2.0
2aaaaba1f000-2aaaabb1e000 ---p 0002b000 08:03 4836619                    /usr/lib64/libvcdinfo.so.0.2.0
2aaaabb1e000-2aaaabb1f000 rw-p 0002a000 08:03 4836619                    /usr/lib64/libvcdinfo.so.0.2.0
2aaaabb1f000-2aaaabb20000 rw-p 2aaaabb1f000 00:00 0 
2aaaabb20000-2aaaabb2b000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4063377                    /usr/lib64/libiso9660.so.5.0.1
2aaaabb2b000-2aaaabc2b000 ---p 0000b000 08:03 4063377                    /usr/lib64/libiso9660.so.5.0.1
2aaaabc2b000-2aaaabc2c000 rw-p 0000b000 08:03 4063377                    /usr/lib64/libiso9660.so.5.0.1
2aaaabc2c000-2aaaabcb5000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9519376                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabcb5000-2aaaabdb5000 ---p 00089000 08:03 9519376                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabdb5000-2aaaabdbc000 rw-p 00089000 08:03 9519376                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabdbc000-2aaaabdbf000 rw-p 2aaaabdbc000 00:00 0 
2aaaabdbf000-2aaaabde2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4771575                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabde2000-2aaaabee2000 ---p 00023000 08:03 4771575                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabee2000-2aaaabee5000 rw-p 00023000 08:03 4771575                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabee5000-2aaaabf80000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9519359                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaabf80000-2aaaac07f000 ---p 0009b000 08:03 9519359                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac07f000-2aaaac08b000 rw-p 0009a000 08:03 9519359                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac08b000-2aaaac08c000 rw-p 2aaaac08b000 00:00 0 
2aaaac08c000-2aaaac13a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9519361                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac13a000-2aaaac239000 ---p 000ae000 08:03 9519361                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac239000-2aaaac248000 rw-p 000ad000 08:03 9519361                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac248000-2aaaac24b000 rw-p 2aaaac248000 00:00 0 
2aaaac24b000-2aaaac57c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9519331                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac57c000-2aaaac67b000 ---p 00331000 08:03 9519331                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac67b000-2aaaac6c7000 rw-p 00330000 08:03 9519331                    /usr/lib64/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac6c7000-2aaaac6d1000 rw-p 2aaaac6c7000 00:00 0 
2aaaac6d1000-2aaaac6da000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 9519362                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac6da000-2aaaac7d9000 ---p 00009000 08:03 9519362                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac7d9000-2aaaac7da000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 9519362                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac7da000-2aaaac80a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4771553                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac80a000-2aaaac909000 ---p 00030000 08:03 4771553                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac909000-2aaaac90d000 rw-p 0002f000 08:03 4771553                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaac90d000-2aaaaca39000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4771596                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaaca39000-2aaaacb39000 ---p 0012c000 08:03 4771596                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaacb39000-2aaaacb47000 rw-p 0012c000 08:03 4771596                    /usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0.3.1
2aaaacb47000-2aaaacb55000 rw-p 2aaaacb47000 00:00 0 
2aaaacb55000-2aaaacb69000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4756428                    /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
2aaaacb69000-2aaaacc68000 ---p 00014000 08:03 4756428                    /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
2aaaacc68000-2aaaacc69000 rw-p 00013000 08:03 4756428                    /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
2aaaacc69000-2aaaacfff000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7290950                    /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaacfff000-2aaaad0fe000 ---p 00396000 08:03 7290950                    /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad0fe000-2aaaad109000 rw-p 00395000 08:03 7290950                    /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad109000-2aaaad10b000 rw-p 2aaaad109000 00:00 0 
2aaaad10b000-2aaaad19c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7290944                    /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad19c000-2aaaad29b000 ---p 00091000 08:03 7290944                    /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad29b000-2aaaad2a0000 rw-p 00090000 08:03 7290944                    /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad2a0000-2aaaad2bd000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4702361                    /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0.2009.1
2aaaad2bd000-2aaaad3bd000 ---p 0001d000 08:03 4702361                    /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0.2009.1
2aaaad3bd000-2aaaad3c0000 rw-p 0001d000 08:03 4702361                    /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0.2009.1
2aaaad3c0000-2aaaad3d8000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 7290949                    /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad3d8000-2aaaad4d7000 ---p 00018000 08:03 7290949                    /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.1200.0
2aaaad4d7000-2aaaad4d8000 rw-p 00017000 08:03 7290949                    /usr/lib64/libgdk_Abgebrochen




[ebuild   R   ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6c  USE="a52 alsa bidi cdda dts dvd flac gnutls hal httpd live matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg stream theora v4l vcd vlm wxwindows x264 xosd xv (-3dfx) -X -aalib (-altivec) -arts -avahi -cddb -corba -daap -dc1394 -debug -directfb -dvb -esd -fbcon -ggi -jack -libcaca -libnotify -lirc -mod -musepack -opengl -optimisememory -oss -png -rtsp -samba -sdl -sdl-image -seamonkey -shout -skins -speex -svg (-svga) -truetype -upnp -vorbis (-win32codecs) -xinerama -xml" 0 kB 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
reproduc: start vlc
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-30 18:38:23 UTC
emerge --info please.
Comment 2 Denny Reeh 2007-09-30 18:39:27 UTC
wonder denny # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:20:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5, 2.5.1-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LANG="de_DE"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/myebuilds /usr/portage/local/vmware/trunk"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd fam fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 3 Stefan G. Weichinger 2007-10-01 20:07:51 UTC
Same crashes here, even after re-emerging vlc (after a "emerge -avuDN world").

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:30:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/wget"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/ramportage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://172.32.99.10/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal howl iconv isdnlog jpeg ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pda pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical cron daemon dev dllaunch envparser find fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit logfile netprobe ngc4 pause pidfile reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog unneeded provide" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 4 Günther Hutzl 2007-10-03 15:19:01 UTC
I am (most likely) having the same problem. VLC crashes at startup.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:20:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/vdr-testing /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts asf avi avifile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth boost browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl dbus dga divx dri ds9097 dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss enblend encode ethereal evo exif fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp fuse gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmedia gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hbci howl httpd iconv icq id3 idea imagemagick isdnlog ithreads java jikes jit joystick jpeg kde kqemu lame latex ldap lirc lm_sensors mad maildir midi mikmod milter mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mono mozbranding moznopango mp3 mp4 mp4live mpd mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap mule mysql mysqli ncurses net nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg oggvorbis ole opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcre pda pdf perl pertty player plugin png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection rt2500pci ruby samba scanner sdl server session sift smp sox spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl subtitles subversion svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff transparency truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode upnp usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vdr visualization vorbis wavplay win32codecs wmp wxwindows x11vnc x264 x86 xanim xattr xcb xine xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="ptp2" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u ttpci" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="avermedia" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I added the debug use flag to vlc and did a "where" in a gdb vlc session (hopefully it helps...):

# gdb vlc
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/vlc
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1212499104 (LWP 5141)]
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
[New Thread -1256559728 (LWP 5165)]
[New Thread -1264952432 (LWP 5166)]
[New Thread -1273345136 (LWP 5167)]
[New Thread -1281737840 (LWP 5168)]
[New Thread -1290130544 (LWP 5169)]
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x082f9790 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7cfcd72]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x87)[0xb7cfe3e7]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0xb6b14d51]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3975770    /usr/bin/vlc
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:0a 3975770    /usr/bin/vlc
0804a000-08308000 rw-p 0804a000 00:00 0          [heap]
b1b00000-b1b21000 rw-p b1b00000 00:00 0
b1b21000-b1c00000 ---p b1b21000 00:00 0
b1c9d000-b1c9f000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2911632    /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b1c9f000-b1ca0000 rw-p 00001000 08:0a 2911632    /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b1ca0000-b1d00000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 16862085   /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b1d00000-b1d60000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 16862084   /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b1d60000-b1d9d000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2307887    /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
b1d9d000-b1d9f000 rw-p 0003d000 08:0a 2307887    /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
b1d9f000-b1e03000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3634075    /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
b1e03000-b1e05000 rw-p 00064000 08:0a 3634075    /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
b1e12000-b1e16000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3566236    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
b1e16000-b1e17000 rw-p 00003000 08:0a 3566236    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
b1e17000-b1e28000 r--p 00000000 08:0a 2260759    /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
b1e28000-b1e2b000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 16862086   /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b1e2b000-b1e31000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3566230    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
b1e31000-b1e32000 rw-p 00005000 08:0a 3566230    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
b1e32000-b1e5d000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3188953    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
b1e5d000-b1e5e000 rw-p 0002b000 08:0a 3188953    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
b1e5e000-b1e7d000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3994155    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/plastik.so
b1e7d000-b1e7e000 rw-p 0001f000 08:0a 3994155    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/plastik.so
b1e7e000-b1e84000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207692    /var/cache/fontconfig/908e05d64697e528f617d0f922145f2a-x86.cache-2
b1e84000-b1e8a000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208005    /var/cache/fontconfig/87f5e051180a7a75f16eb6fe7dbd3749-x86.cache-2
b1e8a000-b1e8d000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208188    /var/cache/fontconfig/1bd14a694193f16af96f94eb79b286b9-x86.cache-2
b1e8d000-b1e8f000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208182    /var/cache/fontconfig/a78b08ed20506173f9fa451762d2bb05-x86.cache-2
b1e8f000-b1e91000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208179    /var/cache/fontconfig/bcf118ca1ab46d6527109716d700cc7e-x86.cache-2
b1e91000-b1e96000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208172    /var/cache/fontconfig/24f099de425bfa6c7c073207110490b9-x86.cache-2
b1e96000-b1e99000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208168    /var/cache/fontconfig/2605a84092e70332f859258c3cf6e6d1-x86.cache-2
b1e99000-b1e9d000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207979    /var/cache/fontconfig/27c2550381a3686286c07cf3d7efdf70-x86.cache-2
b1e9d000-b1eab000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208163    /var/cache/fontconfig/79652363633577d7d713baab7f54ad8c-x86.cache-2
b1eab000-b1eb8000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208158    /var/cache/fontconfig/74f4f7363c6c8ccb193aa2a22598b55a-x86.cache-2
b1eb8000-b1ebe000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208138    /var/cache/fontconfig/c35ea5607b889f89235466d6a6de1815-x86.cache-2
b1ebe000-b1eca000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208113    /var/cache/fontconfig/7f8358a1f9e66cfa75cb208c5e60b538-x86.cache-2
b1eca000-b1ecf000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208040    /var/cache/fontconfig/ba022efc551c75e21c690774bbcf5304-x86.cache-2
b1ecf000-b1f16000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208036    /var/cache/fontconfig/1487dd4aecf3164c4a11193169052443-x86.cache-2
b1f16000-b1f5d000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208035    /var/cache/fontconfig/0f0db7876307790c19e1f91eb9095080-x86.cache-2
b1f5d000-b1f60000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208030    /var/cache/fontconfig/7998293451e4b7352c3495b870377734-x86.cache-2
b1f60000-b1f62000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208025    /var/cache/fontconfig/f55bbeb01d684dc5b5f7b2c347cc42d9-x86.cache-2
b1f62000-b1f64000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208022    /var/cache/fontconfig/76fa4b957c916922374347f144bde9da-x86.cache-2
b1f64000-b1f69000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208021    /var/cache/fontconfig/4460665c0f3e88acdd4c85aa2f409b99-x86.cache-2
b1f69000-b1f77000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208018    /var/cache/fontconfig/8d4af663993b81a124ee82e610bb31f9-x86.cache-2
b1f77000-b1fbd000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207695    /var/cache/fontconfig/17090aa38d5c6f09fb8c5c354938f1d7-x86.cache-2
b1fbd000-b2003000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208193    /var/cache/fontconfig/df311e82a1a24c41a75c2c930223552e-x86.cache-2
b2003000-b2006000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3140800    /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0.1.0
b2006000-b2007000 rw-p 00003000 08:0a 3140800    /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0.1.0
b2007000-b2018000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2453309    /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2
b2018000-b2019000 rw-p 00011000 08:0a 2453309    /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2
b2019000-b2076000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 4219193    /usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0
b2076000-b2079000 rw-p 0005d000 08:0a 4219193    /usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0
b2079000-b208b000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3909121    /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0
b208b000-b208d000 rw-p 00012000 08:0a 3909121    /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0
b208d000-b20dd000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3909061    /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0.0
b20dd000-b20e7000 rw-p 00050000 08:0a 3909061    /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0.0
b20e7000-b20fd000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 621714     /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.19
b20fd000-b20fe000 rw-p 00015000 08:0a 621714     /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.19
b20fe000-b2104000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2208891    /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
b2104000-b2105000 rw-p 00006000 08:0a 2208891    /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
b2105000-b2117000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2307143    /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0.1800.0
b2117000-b2118000 rw-p 00012000 08:0a 2307143    /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0.1800.0
b2118000-b2141000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 1389921    /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.1400.0
b2141000-b2142000 rw-p 00029000 08:0a 1389921    /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.1400.0
b2142000-b219d000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3899514    /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
b219d000-b21a0000 rw-p 0005a000 08:0a 3899514    /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
b21a0000-b2836000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3369921    /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3.8
b2836000-b2876000 rw-p 00695000 08:0a 3369921    /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3.8
b2876000-b287a000 rw-p b2876000 00:00 0
b287b000-b287e000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208019    /var/cache/fontconfig/1da5937173ba4e86481f1f7b5fcb0789-x86.cache-2
b287e000-b2882000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207939    /var/cache/fontconfig/6355034d6588d5dc08dee953d4caf3fd-x86.cache-2
b2882000-b288f000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208015    /var/cache/fontconfig/221fd1126b80b777db535aea535e87ba-x86.cache-2
b288f000-b2895000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208008    /var/cache/fontconfig/12b26b760a24f8b4feb03ad48a333a72-x86.cache-2
b2895000-b28a1000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208001    /var/cache/fontconfig/4b5cf4386f1cde02a336ba961b4ac82d-x86.cache-2
b28a1000-b28a6000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207895    /var/cache/fontconfig/d62e99ef547d1d24cdb1bd22ec1a2976-x86.cache-2
b28a6000-b28a7000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208032    /var/cache/fontconfig/4c599c202bc5c08e2d34565a40eac3b2-x86.cache-2
b28a7000-b28ca000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2454493    /usr
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread -1212499104 (LWP 5141)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) where
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7cc24b0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7cc3bde in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0xb7cf72d5 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0000000a in ?? ()
#5  0xbfb434c0 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000400 in ?? ()
#7  0xb5cc70fa in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb7da7b48 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x00000017 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfb44d18 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000c in ?? ()
#12 0xb7da7b61 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#13 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#14 0xb7da4aa2 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#15 0x00000017 in ?? ()
#16 0xb7da7b65 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#17 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#18 0xbfb439f7 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000008 in ?? ()
#20 0xb7da7b6b in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#21 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#22 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#23 0xbfb435ec in ?? ()
#24 0x00008001 in ?? ()
#25 0xb5cc70f0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#26 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#27 0x00000020 in ?? ()
#28 0xb7da7b6b in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#29 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#30 0xbfb43400 in ?? ()
#31 0xb5932186 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#32 0xbfb439f7 in ?? ()
#33 0x0000004c in ?? ()
#34 0xbfb4366c in ?? ()
#35 0xb5931da8 in g_closure_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#36 0xb7da7b66 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#37 0x00000025 in ?? ()
#38 0x40008002 in ?? ()
#39 0x00008002 in ?? ()
#40 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#41 0xb7da4aa2 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#42 0x00000017 in ?? ()
#43 0xbfb43460 in ?? ()
#44 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
Comment 5 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2007-10-10 09:10:22 UTC
any clue why this is happening *now* and for several people ?
I cannot reproduce it here :/

could you please paste the output of 'vlc -vv --reset-plugins-cache' ?
Comment 6 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2007-10-10 11:10:11 UTC
*** Bug 194872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Günther Hutzl 2007-10-10 11:22:46 UTC
I see there is a new version of vlc in portage (vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071009). I will giv it a try soon. It is blocked by the oder one: 

[blocks B     ] <media-video/vlc-0.8.8 (is blocking media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071009)

Here is my output:
$ vlc -vv --reset-plugins-cache

VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: removing plugins cache file /home/hutzl/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so: undefined symbol: img_resample_init)
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so: undefined symbol: NewHandleClear)
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 187 modules
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/hutzl/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private warning: config file /home/hutzl/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
[00000001] main private debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU
[00000001] main private debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates
[00000001] main private debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000236] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000236] main playlist debug: thread 3049175952 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
[00000237] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000237] main private debug: thread 3040783248 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
[00000238] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000238] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000238] main interface debug: thread 3032390544 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000239] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000239] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000239] main interface debug: thread 3023997840 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000240] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 4 candidates
[00000240] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000240] main interface debug: thread 3015605136 (manager) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:216)
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb32fca20 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7d2e832]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x87)[0xb7d2fea7]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0xb751dd51]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 4417082    /usr/bin/vlc
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:0a 4417082    /usr/bin/vlc
0804a000-08218000 rw-p 0804a000 00:00 0          [heap]
b2400000-b2421000 rw-p b2400000 00:00 0
b2421000-b2500000 ---p b2421000 00:00 0
b25d6000-b25d8000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3341429    /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b25d8000-b25d9000 rw-p 00001000 08:0a 3341429    /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b25d9000-b2639000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 3629378    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b2639000-b2699000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 3629377    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b2699000-b26d6000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2602216    /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
b26d6000-b26d8000 rw-p 0003d000 08:0a 2602216    /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
b26d8000-b273b000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2602665    /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
b273b000-b273d000 rw-p 00063000 08:0a 2602665    /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
b2751000-b2755000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 4137132    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
b2755000-b2756000 rw-p 00003000 08:0a 4137132    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
b2756000-b2767000 r--p 00000000 08:0a 2618840    /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
b2767000-b276a000 rw-s 00000000 00:07 3629409    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b276a000-b2795000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3207085    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
b2795000-b2796000 rw-p 0002b000 08:0a 3207085    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
b2796000-b27b5000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 4156177    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/plastik.so
b27b5000-b27b6000 rw-p 0001f000 08:0a 4156177    /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/plastik.so
b27b6000-b27bc000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207632    /var/cache/fontconfig/908e05d64697e528f617d0f922145f2a-x86.cache-2
b27bc000-b27c2000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207666    /var/cache/fontconfig/87f5e051180a7a75f16eb6fe7dbd3749-x86.cache-2
b27c2000-b27c5000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207624    /var/cache/fontconfig/1bd14a694193f16af96f94eb79b286b9-x86.cache-2
b27c5000-b27c7000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207773    /var/cache/fontconfig/a78b08ed20506173f9fa451762d2bb05-x86.cache-2
b27c7000-b27c9000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208024    /var/cache/fontconfig/bcf118ca1ab46d6527109716d700cc7e-x86.cache-2
b27c9000-b27ce000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208012    /var/cache/fontconfig/24f099de425bfa6c7c073207110490b9-x86.cache-2
b27ce000-b27d1000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2208004    /var/cache/fontconfig/2605a84092e70332f859258c3cf6e6d1-x86.cache-2
b27d1000-b27d5000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207996    /var/cache/fontconfig/27c2550381a3686286c07cf3d7efdf70-x86.cache-2
b27d5000-b27e3000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207714    /var/cache/fontconfig/79652363633577d7d713baab7f54ad8c-x86.cache-2
b27e3000-b27f0000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207698    /var/cache/fontconfig/74f4f7363c6c8ccb193aa2a22598b55a-x86.cache-2
b27f0000-b27f6000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207909    /var/cache/fontconfig/c35ea5607b889f89235466d6a6de1815-x86.cache-2
b27f6000-b2802000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207870    /var/cache/fontconfig/7f8358a1f9e66cfa75cb208c5e60b538-x86.cache-2
b2802000-b2807000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207866    /var/cache/fontconfig/ba022efc551c75e21c690774bbcf5304-x86.cache-2
b2807000-b284e000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207864    /var/cache/fontconfig/1487dd4aecf3164c4a11193169052443-x86.cache-2
b284e000-b2895000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207835    /var/cache/fontconfig/0f0db7876307790c19e1f91eb9095080-x86.cache-2
b2895000-b2898000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207569    /var/cache/fontconfig/7998293451e4b7352c3495b870377734-x86.cache-2
b2898000-b289a000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207774    /var/cache/fontconfig/f55bbeb01d684dc5b5f7b2c347cc42d9-x86.cache-2
b289a000-b289c000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207769    /var/cache/fontconfig/76fa4b957c916922374347f144bde9da-x86.cache-2
b289c000-b28a1000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207768    /var/cache/fontconfig/4460665c0f3e88acdd4c85aa2f409b99-x86.cache-2
b28a1000-b28a4000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207765    /var/cache/fontconfig/1da5937173ba4e86481f1f7b5fcb0789-x86.cache-2
b28a4000-b28a8000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207762    /var/cache/fontconfig/6355034d6588d5dc08dee953d4caf3fd-x86.cache-2
b28a8000-b28b6000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207759    /var/cache/fontconfig/8d4af663993b81a124ee82e610bb31f9-x86.cache-2
b28b6000-b28fc000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207633    /var/cache/fontconfig/17090aa38d5c6f09fb8c5c354938f1d7-x86.cache-2
b28fc000-b2942000 r--s 00000000 08:0a 2207623    /var/cache/fontconfig/df311e82a1a24c41a75c2c930223552e-x86.cache-2
b2942000-b2953000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 2618891    /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2
b2953000-b2954000 rw-p 00011000 08:0a 2618891    /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2
b2954000-b29b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3338923    /usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0
b29b2000-b29b5000 rw-p 0005d000 08:0a 3338923    /usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0
b29b5000-b29c7000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3697093    /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0
b29c7000-b29c9000 rw-p 00012000 08:0a 3697093    /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0
b29c9000-b2a19000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 3696963    /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0.0
b2a19000-b2a23000 rw-p 00050000 08:0a 3696963    /uAborted (core dumped)
Comment 8 Günther Hutzl 2007-10-10 12:59:04 UTC
Here are my results with the latest alpha version (still no luck :-( ).

hutzl@elrond ~ $ vlc -vv --reset-plugins-cache
VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.0-svn Grishenko - (c) 1996-2007 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--disable-altivec' '--disable-sout' '--enable-httpd' '--disable-gnutls' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--disable-cdda' '--disable-cddax' '--disable-libcddb' '--enable-vcd' '--disable-vcdx' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-pvr' '--enable-ogg' '--disable-mkv' '--enable-flac' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-theora' '--enable-x11' '--enable-screen' '--enable-xvideo' '--disable-directfb' '--disable-xvmc' '--disable-xinerama' '--enable-glx' '--enable-opengl' '--enable-galaktos' '--disable-fribidi' '--enable-dvdread' '--enable-dvdplay' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-fb' '--disable-svgalib' '--disable-aa' '--disable-caca' '--enable-oss' '--disable-esd' '--enable-arts' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-xosd' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-mad' '--enable-a52' '--enable-dca' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--disable-ggi' '--disable-glide' '--enable-sdl' '--disable-sdl-image' '--enable-png' '--enable-libxml2' '--enable-smb' '--disable-daap' '--disable-mod' '--disable-speex' '--disable-shout' '--disable-rtsp' '--disable-realrtsp' '--enable-loader' '--disable-skins2' '--enable-hal' '--disable-bonjour' '--enable-upnp' '--disable-optimize-memory' '--disable-notify' '--disable-jack' '--disable-mpc' '--enable-x264' '--disable-dc1394' '--disable-qt4' '--disable-lua' '--enable-gnomevfs' '--disable-taglib' '--disable-musicbrainz' '--disable-dirac' '--enable-dbus' '--enable-dbus-control' '--disable-libgcrypt' '--disable-zvbi' '--disable-id3tag' '--disable-live555' '--disable-libcdio' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-wxwidgets' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--disable-twolame' '--disable-faad' '--disable-dv' '--disable-libvc1' '--disable-snapshot' '--disable-growl' '--disable-pth' '--disable-portaudio' '--disable-libtar' '--disable-optimizations' '--enable-utf8' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--disable-mozilla' 'XPIDL=' 'MOZILLA_CONFIG=' 'WX_CONFIG=/usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-release-2.6' '--disable-vlm' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: removing plugins cache file /home/hutzl/.cache/vlc/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main libvlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/control/libhttp_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/control/libhttp_plugin.so: undefined symbol: __vlm_New)
[00000001] main libvlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/control/libtelnet_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/control/libtelnet_plugin.so: undefined symbol: vlm_MessageNew)
[00000001] main libvlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/visualization/libgalaktos_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/visualization/libgalaktos_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fact_wrapper)
[00000001] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: module bank initialized, found 204 modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: opening config file (/home/hutzl/.config/vlc/vlcrc)
[00000001] main libvlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU
[00000001] main libvlc debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates
[00000001] main libvlc debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000278] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000278] main private debug: thread 3032984464 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:81)
[00000279] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000279] main private debug: thread 3024591760 (fetcher) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:107)
[00000277] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000277] main playlist debug: thread 3016199056 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:117)
[00000280] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000280] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000280] main interface debug: thread 3007806352 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:145)
[00000281] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000281] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000281] main interface debug: thread 2999413648 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:145)
[00000282] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 4 candidates
[00000282] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000282] main interface debug: thread 2991020944 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:145)
[00000277] main playlist debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
[00000277] main playlist debug: rebuild done - 0 items, index -1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Comment 9 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2007-10-10 13:28:05 UTC
does gdb tells you the segfault has something to do with wxwindows/wxwidgets ?

did vlc 0.8.6c ever worked for you ? I'd assume it did, it has been around for a long time. Do you know what you upgraded that could have triggered that bug ?

errors seem to mention glib, could you try downgrading or upgrading it to see if it helps ?
Comment 10 Günther Hutzl 2007-10-10 19:04:33 UTC
Cool! I got it working again!

So here is what I did: Like you suggested, Alexis, it had to do with glib. I had dev-libs/glib set to instable (~x86) for no (obvious) good reason, so I set it to stable. I also had to set x11-libs/gtk+ to stable as a consequence. After that I re-emerged vlc-0.8.6c and vlc was working (partially). The GUI came up, but it was crashing with an error in libboboboui when I tried to bring up the about box. So I re-emerged libbobobo and libboboboui and just to be sure I also re-emerged vlc after that.

That finally did the trick! I have no crashes any more. Thanks for the help.

I think the others having the problem should do the same and confirm if this fixes it for them too.
Comment 11 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-12 12:19:47 UTC
The crashes started when updating to Gnome 2.20, latest glib.  So it has to do with that.
Comment 12 Alexander Zimmerling 2007-10-15 16:22:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> The crashes started when updating to Gnome 2.20, latest glib.  So it has to do
> with that.
> 

Hey guys,

thanks for the tip. had similar problems, but now all problems are gone.

regards!
Comment 13 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-16 13:32:15 UTC
The latest testing/masked version of glib did not help, but upgrading to wxGTK 2.6.4.0 (testing still) made the difference.  This issue is not really urgent.  Stable users are not affected, testing neither, so only the mixers are in trouble.  Anyway.  Could someone check if vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071009 crashes?
Comment 14 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2007-10-16 13:38:53 UTC
@wxwindows, could you please check this ? there seems to be some incompatibility between some versions of wxGTK and latest glibs/gtk
Comment 15 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-17 00:20:30 UTC
yeah this is a known issue.  2.6.3.3 will not work with >=gtk+-2.11 since it moved to using GSlice for GtkBorder.  calling g_free results in a double free corruption.  see /usr/portage/x11-libs/wxGTK/files/wxGTK-2.6.4.0-g_free.patch

we're planning on moving 2.6.4.0 to stable real soon-like.  leio do you have an eta?
Comment 16 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2007-10-17 07:20:49 UTC
I'd say that if I don't finish with ABI checking within 2 days from now, then you just go ahead without it.
Keep in mind that this gtk+ compatibility is not a problem if people aren't mixing packages at different package visibilities. But it fixes amule crasher, so real soon now, yes.
Comment 17 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-12 06:58:16 UTC
Closing as newer wxGTK is done.