vlc crashed with signal 5 in _XError()

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Binary package hint: vlc

all vidieoplayers are crashing

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
Package: vlc-nox 0.8.6.release.h-1ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: vlc file:///home/username/Vid%25C3%25A9os/Using-Miro/Miropcf-TheBasicsOfMiro170.mp4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 XSync () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: vlc crashed with signal 5 in _XError()
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:gdk_x_error (display=<value optimized out>, error=<value optimized out>)
_XError (dpy=0x1e31650, rep=0x7f11bc02fb30) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:2912
process_responses (dpy=0x1e31650, wait_for_first_event=0, current_error=0x4588aec8,
_XReply (dpy=0x1e31650, rep=0x4588af10, extra=0, discard=1) at ../../src/xcb_io.c:370
XSync (dpy=0x1e31650, discard=0) at ../../src/Sync.c:48

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, you reported this bug a while ago on a pre-release of Intrepid. You are also saying that all video players where crashing. Are you still having this problem with Intrepid stable?

//magnus

[zesty109 (zesty109)]

I am having this same issue. I have the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10), and I have all of the updates. I just had Ubuntu put on my computer last night by a buddy who uses it, and has not had any of these problems. Everything works like a charm (thus far), except for media/movie players. Every single one I have tried (totem, mplayer, vlc) all crash immediately after I try to open a movie file (avi mostly) or a dvd. I am complete lost. Can anyone help?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

This stack trace uses gdk, meaning the WxWidget interface. This is not present in VLC 0.9, so this report is unusable.