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[Precise] vlc crashed with SIGSEGV on exit

Bug #963729 reported by Scott Testerman on 2012-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #408719: QtDbus: KIO scheduler exit handler crashes VLC. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	vlc (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I keep getting crash reports when I close VLC. Although the problem is random, I have even been able to duplicate it by starting VLC and closing it, without opening any media files. The real problem is that VLC isn't crashing (I promise!) but is properly responding to my order to exit, either by pressing Ctrl-Q or clicking the Close button in the window.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: vlc-nox 2.0.0-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 24 03:50:48 2012
Disassembly: => 0x7f280937ff4b: Cannot access memory at address 0x7f280937ff4b
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120228.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Scott Testerman (scott-testerman) wrote on 2012-03-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (65.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (804 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (737 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (633 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SegvAnalysis.txt Edit (176 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (110 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-03-24:

Stacktrace:
#0 0x00007f280937ff4b in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff87f78948
StacktraceTop: ?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-03-24: ThreadStacktrace.txt

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-03-24: Crash report cannot be processed

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate a useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

outdated debug symbol package for libass4: package version 0.10.0-3 dbgsym version 0.9.13-1
outdated debug symbol package for libv4l-0: package version 0.8.6-1ubuntu1 dbgsym version 0.8.5-3ubuntu2

Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still
encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!

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removed: need-amd64-retrace

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jenna (giantpune) wrote on 2012-05-20:

I've been getting this on my laptop and desktop since upgrading kubuntu to 12.04 (64 bit).
I also tried to generate a meaningful crash dump, but was told there are no symbols available.

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jenna (giantpune) wrote on 2012-05-20:

i found this older bug report that describes a method which is i can follow to reproduce the bug every time. simply using the "open file" dialog will cause the crash to happen when you exit, weather or not you cancel or actually open a file in that dialog.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/408719