VLC failed after attempt to open a video file

[Lucas Pereira do Amaral]

Terminal output

[00005561f80fc630] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00005561f81005f0] main playlist: playlist is empty
kf5.kio.core: Invalid URL: QUrl("/home/user")
uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: vlc 3.0.4-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Oct 16 14:19:37 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20181013.1)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

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[Berk Akinci (berka)]

I found this bug report because I'm having what I think is the same problem.
Open video file -> segfault.
Note: this is using Ubuntu 18.10 as a guest in a VirtualBox VM.

I've uploaded the crash file. I didn't get a "newly created bug," but the file is at:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/ca70fc50-dd4b-11e8-9306-fa163e102db1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

If libEGL already fails, there is not much that can be done on the vlc side. It looks like you have a nvidia GPU, so let's reassign the bug to the nvidia driver.

[Mathew Binkley (mathew-binkley)]

Tagging this as I'm seeing the same. Running Cosmic 18.10 64-bit in a VirtualBox 5.2.22r126460 (latest stable). It complains about "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so" even though I don't have any nvidia drivers or Ubuntu packages installed (it's using the VirtualBox video driver).

[Berk Akinci (berka)]

I disagree with nVidia driver assessment. I am running this under VirtualBox with no 3D hardware acceleration.
Also, a segfault is not an appropriate outcome in any case.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]