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vlc crashes on playing a file : set video output to x11 now works

Bug #282321 reported by bigpanda on 2008-10-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #269585: totem-gstreamer crashed with SIGSEGV in pa_mainloop_dispatch(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	vlc (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vlc

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ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: vlc-nox 0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu3.2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: vlc
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
pa_mainloop_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in pa_mainloop_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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bigpanda (ralphturnbull) wrote on 2008-10-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (499 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (34.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (708 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (466 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (650 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-10-14: Symbolic stack trace

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:pa_flist_push (l=0x8620d58, p=0x8366c00) at ./pulsecore/atomic.h:86
item_free (item=0x8366c00, q=0x0) at pulsecore/pstream.c:300
do_something (p=0x85cd1c0) at pulsecore/pstream.c:616
callback (m=0x861b7ac, e=0x85cd460, fd=15, f=PA_IO_EVENT_OUTPUT, userdata=0x861f3a0)
pa_mainloop_dispatch (m=0x861b768) at pulse/mainloop.c:679