VLC crashed playing an MP4 file

[Christopher Forster]

Binary package hint: vlc

I was using VLC 1.1.9 and the crash happened while playing an MP4 file. I'm using Sabily 11.04 Badr 32-bit which is based on Ubuntu 11.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc-nox 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 7f5c2fef53be40ecc02adf46d8bbb62c
CheckboxSystem: c69722ecac764861be52925fa50b4dcc
Date: Sat Jun 18 20:20:28 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationMedia: Sabily-small 11.04 "Badr" - i386 (20110505)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sv_SE:en_US:en
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

With the stack trace, there is pretty much nothing we can infer from your bug report.

I'm going to assume this is a duplicate of 743323.

[Christopher Forster (christopherforster)]

Current playback speed: 1.50x

[Christopher Forster (christopherforster)]

Started VLC inside gdb.

Applications >Accessories > Terminal

gdb vlc

(gdb) run

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Can you upgrade vlc to 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2 from natty-proposed and tell me if it fixes your bug?

[Christopher Forster (christopherforster)]

Synaptic > Settings > Repositories > Updates > Pre-released updates (natty-proposed) > Close > Reload

libvlc5 (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
libvlccore4 (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc-data (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc-dbg (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc-nox (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc-plugin-notify (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
vlc-plugin-pulse (version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) will be upgraded to version 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2

No VLC 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2 crash happened while playing an MP4 file. But after Stop playback the Play button doesn't work.