vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in magazine_chain_pop_head()

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1) Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

2) vlc:
  Installed: 2.0.3-2
  Candidate: 2.0.3-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.3-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Tried to add a folder to vlc playlist

4) Vlc crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: vlc-nox 2.0.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Sep 21 14:19:57 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f7e920829cf <g_slice_alloc+223>: mov (%rbx),%rax
 PC (0x7f7e920829cf) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x3ff0000000000000) 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:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-01 (20 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev root sambashare scanner tape video

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StacktraceTop:
 magazine_chain_pop_head (magazine_chunks=0x7f7e7c001710) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gslice.c:532
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (ix=<optimized out>, tmem=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gslice.c:835
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=mem_size@entry=80) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gslice.c:994
 g_slice_alloc0 (mem_size=80) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./glib/gslice.c:1029
 g_type_create_instance (type=140181223792768) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.14/./gobject/gtype.c:1870

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

VLC does not use gobject internally. Something else in the address space did and crashed. Not VLC bug. Please reassign.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still when using a maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

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[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]