I used VLC itself to create and save an XSPF playlist of streaming video URLs from MSNBC's website. When I try to load the same playlist onto VLC to play it again, vlc crashes with a segfault. I rebuilt vlc and libxml2 with debugging enabled and am attaching a backtrace. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start vlc 2.Attempt to load attached XSPF playlist 3. Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8200_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -g -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d/etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -g -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en hi hi_IN" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 audiofile bash-completion berkdb bittorrent bzip2 cairo caps captury cdparanoia chm cleartype cli cracklib crypt dbus dgadhcp dirac disk-partition djvu dri encode exif extra fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig fortran fuse games gdbm gif git glitz gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gsm gtk hal htmlhandbook iconv id3tag ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inotify isdnlog java jbig jingle jpeg jpeg2k kate kde kde4 kipi laptop lcms libass libcaca libnotify lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo matroska midi mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg msn mudflap multilib musepack ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl plasma png pppd pulseaudio python qt4 readline reflection rle sasl schroedinger sdl sdl-image semantic-desktop session skins sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion suid svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb utils vim-syntax vorbis webkit x264 xcb xcomposite xft xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en hi hi_IN" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 184529 [details] XSPF playlist which crashes VLC
Created attachment 184530 [details] gdb backtrace of crash rebuilt vlc with USE=debug rebuilt libxml2 with FEATURES="nostrip -splitdebug" USE=debug
The XSPF file plays fine on Windows with VLC 0.8.6f and with VLC 0.9.8a
Reassigning to video herd.
Created attachment 184680 [details, diff] fix try this patch
Comment on attachment 184680 [details, diff] fix forget about that patch; it is only for 0.9.9_rc2 and is unrelated...
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=184530) [edit] > gdb backtrace of crash > > rebuilt vlc with USE=debug > rebuilt libxml2 with FEATURES="nostrip -splitdebug" USE=debug FEATURES="splitdebug" without nostrip is quite fine for debugging - no need to have the debug symbols in the main binary as you are doing now as gdb will find it anyway - that is, your FEATURES in make.conf as shown in the emerge --info is quite sufficient. USE=debug is usually used for compiling in extra debugging code, like debugging assert checks, etc. -ggdb or the like in CFLAGS is your responsibility and with USE=debug those getting added is just a side-effect, but you already have "-g -ggdb" (they are pretty much equal on linux, so you could just have -ggdb). Can you instead do vlc and libxml2 with -O1 temporarily instead of -O2? (feel free to keep the temporary USE=debug on them). And a full backtrace could be useful - "bt full" instead of "bt" in gdb. That will also output local variable values for each frame then.
Hi Mart & Alexis I compiled with FEATURES="nostrip -splitdebug" becasue the first time i asked for a backtrace, it contained likes like #1 0x00007f9703c8dbe7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 I took that to mean that it was somehow attempting to find the debug information from libxml2 but could not isolate it as libxml2's debug info had been "splitdebugged". Am I wrong in assuming this ? Should I have not bothered to do "nostrip -splitdebug" ? Thanks for your pointer, Mart, that -g -ggdb is redundant on Linux. I just recompiled vlc and libxml2 with -O0 and FEATURES="nostrip -splitdebug" and reproduced the crash. The output of bt full is appended. I am also appending the output of thread apply all bt full, in case that is any help.
Created attachment 184944 [details] VLC crash log - full bt VLC crash log with bt full.
Created attachment 184945 [details] VLC crash log - full bt This one was taken with the gdb command thread apply all bt full
Could you please try with vlc 0.9.9a-r1 and, if it still crashes, with 1.0.0_rc4 ? I recall seeing some crash fixes with latest libxml2 but can't remember when these have been pushed :/
(In reply to comment #11) > Could you please try with vlc 0.9.9a-r1 and, if it still crashes, with > 1.0.0_rc4 ? > I recall seeing some crash fixes with latest libxml2 but can't remember when > these have been pushed :/ please try with 1.0.0, its fine here.
