vlc assert failure: vlc: /build/buildd/libdvdnav-4.1.3/src/vm/vm.c:1074: play_Cell: Assertion `0' failed.

[Dogge]

Binary package hint: vlc

I tried to view a dvd backed up as an iso-file.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: vlc: /build/buildd/libdvdnav-4.1.3/src/vm/vm.c:1074: play_Cell: Assertion `0' failed.
Date: Fri Oct 16 18:21:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vlc-nox 1.0.2-1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: vlc file:///home/username/Videos/SNATCH.iso
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __assert_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libdvdnav.so.4
Title: vlc assert failure: vlc: /build/buildd/libdvdnav-4.1.3/src/vm/vm.c:1074: play_Cell: Assertion `0' failed.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1980): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
*__GI___assert_fail (assertion=0xe57a03 "0",
play_Cell (vm=0x9808f38)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[PabloRQ (pablo-romeroquinteros)]

I'm trying to play a DVD created with DVD95, and get this error.

I've tried:

$ apport-collect 453267

...but it says libdvdnav isn't installed. Then verified in synaptic and it's installed. Reinstalled libdvdnav and it's the same.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

I don't think apport-collect would bring much more at this point.

What's needed is someone to pass the problem upstream and get it fixed for real. I don't know if upstream is still active though.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

There is only one assert(0) in playCell, so this is probably the code getting hit:

  if(!set_PGN(vm)) {
    /* Should not happen */
    assert(0);
    return play_PGC_post(vm);
  }

[Guy K. Kloss (guy.kloss)]

Just stumbled upon the same issue in raring as well.

[JB VideoLAN (jb-videolan)]

Confirmed upstream