vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in ref()

[Andrew M Tapp]

video was playing, opened tools menu, selected track sync, player crashed. Reopened player and repeated circumstances, haven't had a problem since.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: vlc-nox 2.1.2-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-13.33-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Mar 6 14:50:58 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-17 (47 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20131231)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file /home/username/path/to/movie.username
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb5ea5656 <_ZNK7QWidget7actionsEv+22>: lock incl (%edx)
 PC (0xb5ea5656) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x0075006f) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 QWidget::actions() const () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
 QMenu::clear() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt4_plugin.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt4_plugin.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt4_plugin.so
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in QWidget::actions()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ref (this=0x75006f) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/arch/qatomic_i386.h:120
 QList (l=..., this=0xb47c235c) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qlist.h:122
 QWidget::actions (this=0xa9cb5688) at kernel/qwidget.cpp:3344
 QMenu::clear (this=0xa9cb5688) at widgets/qmenu.cpp:1731
 VLCMenuBar::updateAudioDevice (p_intf=0x8f3c5f0, p_aout=0x8fad848, current=0xa9cb5688) at menus.cpp:1558

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

vlc 2.1.x is no longer supported. If this issue still exists in vlc 3.0.x, please create a new bug report.