Bug 194753 – media-video/vlc segmentation fault

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Tommaso Visconti 2007-10-04 22:58:50 UTC]

Hi,
after the upgrade of gnome (now 2.20) vlc crashes on start.

~ $ vlc --verbose 2
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: loading plugins cache file /home/tommyblue/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 194 modules
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/tommyblue/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU 
[00000001] main private debug: looking for memcpy module: 3 candidates
[00000001] main private debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000249] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000249] main playlist debug: thread 3081132944 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
[00000250] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000250] main private debug: thread 3072740240 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
[00000251] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000251] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000251] main interface debug: thread 3064347536 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000253] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000253] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000253] main interface debug: thread 3055954832 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000255] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 4 candidates
[00000255] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000255] main interface debug: thread 3030600592 (manager) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:216)
Segmentation fault

ask me if you want some other debug info, i don't know what can be useful for you. i attach the strace output

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
start vlc
Actual Results:  
segmentation fault


~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8-mactel i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8-mactel i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:50:01 +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
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:  1.5, 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=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
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/fonts/fonts.conf /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="-O2 -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo "
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="it"
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/local/portage/xeffects"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr fortran gdbm gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode x86 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="mouse keyboard evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Tommaso Visconti 2007-10-04 22:59:23 UTC]

Created attachment 132602 [details]
Strace output

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-04 23:01:24 UTC]

Please attach a backtrace here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml

[Comment 3 Tommaso Visconti 2007-10-05 08:13:42 UTC]

Created attachment 132618 [details]
Backtrace