vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in QWindow::handle()

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

It happened while playing full screen video

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vlc-bin 3.0.0~rc4-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jan 11 14:31:13 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (1267 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcCmdline: vlc big_buck_bunny_720p_stereo.avi
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7efc6dc2b500 <_ZNK7QWindow6handleEv>: mov 0x8(%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7efc6dc2b500) ok
 source "0x8(%rdi)" (0x1000000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 QWindow::handle() const () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
 QXcbWindow::hide() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
 QWindow::setVisible(bool) () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
 QWidgetPrivate::hide_sys() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
 QWidgetPrivate::hide_helper() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in QWindow::handle()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-09 (2 days ago)
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StacktraceTop:
 QWindow::handle (this=0x1000000010) at kernel/qwindow.cpp:1856
 QPlatformWindow::parent (this=<optimized out>) at kernel/qplatformwindow.cpp:86
 QXcbWindow::hide (this=0x7efc4469e380) at qxcbwindow.cpp:880
 QWindow::setVisible (this=this@entry=0x7efc4469f340, visible=visible@entry=false) at kernel/qwindow.cpp:592
 QWidgetPrivate::hide_sys (this=this@entry=0x7efc445c10e0) at kernel/qwidget.cpp:8159

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Do you also see this issue with the version that landed in bionic, i.e. 3.0.1?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I cannot reproduce this issue anymore. closing. Thanks.