vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in vaInitialize()

[Alexandru Cucu]

Crashes when opening files

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: vlc-nox 1.1.11-2build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 8 20:27:26 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
ProcCmdline: vlc
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f5ab5aad721: movdqu (%rdi),%xmm1
 PC (0x7f5ab5aad721) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm1" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 vaInitialize () from /usr/lib/libva.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.53
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in vaInitialize()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S:32
 vaInitialize () from /tmp/tmplEWOqX/usr/lib/libva.so.1
 Open (i_codec_id=<optimized out>, p_va=0x370fa50) at vaapi.c:144
 vlc_va_NewVaapi (i_codec_id=<optimized out>) at vaapi.c:490
 ffmpeg_GetFormat (p_codec=0x7f5a94020980, pi_fmt=0x7f5a90f9ebb0) at video.c:1191

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

strlen(NULL) in libva...