vlc crashed with SIGSEGV

[Aurimas Fišeras]

Video output is Open GL, vlc works in windowed mode, but immediately crashes on entering full screen.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vlc-bin 3.0.0~rc2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 26 08:36:36 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-28 (758 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151127)
ProcCmdline: vlc
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f33a9fb0040: mov %esi,0x80(%rdi)
 PC (0x7f33a9fb0040) ok
 source "%esi" ok
 destination "0x80(%rdi)" (0x00000080) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt_plugin.so
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt_plugin.so
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt_plugin.so
 QObject::event(QEvent*) () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
 QWidget::event(QEvent*) () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lp lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 FullscreenControllerWidget::setTargetScreen (this=0x0, screennumber=0) at gui/qt/components/controller.cpp:1002
 MainInterface::setVideoFullScreen (this=0x7f33882c2d00, fs=<optimized out>) at gui/qt/main_interface.cpp:873
 MainInterface::qt_static_metacall (_o=0x7f33882c2d00, _c=<optimized out>, _id=<optimized out>, _a=<optimized out>) at gui/qt/main_interface.moc.cpp:318
 QObject::event (this=this@entry=0x7f33882c2d00, e=e@entry=0x7f3330ae4780) at kernel/qobject.cpp:1246
 QWidget::event (this=this@entry=0x7f33882c2d00, event=event@entry=0x7f3330ae4780) at kernel/qwidget.cpp:9266

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Does it still happen with latest version of vlc and all the system updates installed?

[Aurimas Fišeras (aurimas-gmail)]

Still crashes with vlc 3.0.0~rc4-1ubuntu1 and all system updates installed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 3.0.0~rc7-2ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (3.0.0~rc7-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

   * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
     - xenial->bionic upgrade adjustments to avoid file overwrite conflicts
       - vlc-bin breaks & replaces vlc-nox
       - vlc-l10n breaks & replaces vlc-data

vlc (3.0.0~rc7-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/: Disable freerdp plugin. freerdp2 is currently not supported.
    (Closes: #888323)

vlc (3.0.0~rc7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release candidate.

vlc (3.0.0~rc6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Helmut Grohne ]
  * debian/control: Annotate Build-Depends: python3 with :native. (Closes:
    #887440)

  [ Sebastian Ramacher ]
  * New upstream release candidate.
  * debian/rules:
    - Handle vendor consistently.
    - Remove workaround for some resources.
  * debian/vlc-plugin-base.install: Install lua byte code.
  * debian/libvlc-bin.postinst.in: Exit early if plugins directory does not
    exist. (Closes: #887621)

vlc (3.0.0~rc5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release candidate.
    - Fix crash in full-screen mode. (LP: #1740078)
  * debian/copyright: Update copyright years.
  * debian/patches: Removed, included upstream.
  - debian/control: Demote vlc-l10n from Depends to Recommends.

vlc (3.0.0~rc4-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    - Move to salsa.debian.org
    - Remove obsolete Pre-Depends.
  * debian/NEWS: Remove old NEWS from pre 2.x.
  * debian/:
    - Move documentation to /usr/share/doc/$mainpkg as recommended by policy.
    - Bump debhelper compat to 11.
  * debian/copyright: Bump copyright years.

vlc (3.0.0~rc4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: Add Breaks on phonon-backend-vlc to ensure proper
    upgrades.
  * debian/rules: Do not build chromecast plugin on Ubuntu. It fails due to
    issues involving Mir and protobuf.
  * debian/: Enable libplacebo.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:10:29 +0100