I successfully imported a large music library (~310 GiB in ~64000 files) into vlc 2.2.0~pre2-4build1 on a Lubuntu Utopic amd64 system, listened to music for a while, left and returned to my machine a couple hours later, closed vlc, reopened it (seeing that my imported music was still listed), then closed it again. At some point after I got back to my machine, vlc crashed, but I don't know when since the only reason I know a crash happened was that Apport told me. I suspect the crash occurred when I closed vlc the second time, though it may have been when I closed vlc the first time, or at some other point.
Hopefully the automatically attached stack trace will provide useful information.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: vlc-nox 2.2.0~pre2-4build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-33.44-generic 3.16.7-ckt7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Wed Mar 25 13:51:18 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-15 (161 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20141014)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x7fcf159e75d0 <varcmp>: mov (%rsi),%rsi
PC (0x7fcf159e75d0) ok
source "(%rsi)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%rsi" ok
Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
varcmp (a=0x7fcee9f90d30, b=0x4) at misc/variables.c:145
__tfind (key=key@entry=0x7fcee9f90d30, vrootp=vrootp@entry=0x1be5cd8, compar=compar@entry=0x7fcf159e75d0 <varcmp>) at tsearch.c:320
Lookup (psz_name=0x7fcf15a0d5cb "item-change", obj=0x1be5d68) at misc/variables.c:154
var_SetChecked (p_this=0x1be5d68, psz_name=psz_name@entry=0x7fcf15a0d5cb "item-change", expected_type=expected_type@entry=112, val=...) at misc/variables.c:712
var_SetAddress (ptr=<optimized out>, psz_name=0x7fcf15a0d5cb "item-change", p_obj=<optimized out>) at ../include/vlc_variables.h:287
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in varcmp()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
StacktraceTop:
varcmp (a=0x7fcee9f90d30, b=0x4) at misc/variables.
__tfind (key=key@
Lookup (psz_name=
var_SetChecked (p_this=0x1be5d68, psz_name=
var_SetAddress (ptr=<optimized out>, psz_name=