Audacious not launching (Segmentation Fault)

[James Schriver]

Binary package hint: audacious

Recent updates to audacious unable to launch. When opened from terminal (audacious Segmentation fault (core dumped)).

[Tom Kiesel (tom-nonotyet)]

I can confirm this.

Uninstalling and reinstalling Audacious through apt doesn't fix it.

I moved ~/.config/audacious/ to a backup and started audacious to see if corrupted settings were to blame

tom@gecko:~$ audacious
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

A new ~/.config/audacious/ had been created. Its contents:

playlists (empty directory)
config (empty file)
log (non-empty file, attached to this post)

/var/log/messages contents:
------------------------------------

Mar 29 01:26:24 gecko kernel: [ 626.613389] audacious[7003]: segfault at 519fc381 eip b79b985c esp bff53bf0 error 4

[William Pitcock (nenolod)]

Hi,

Do you use audacious-crossfade?

If so, audacious-crossfade needs to be rebuilt against 1.5 due to it not
doing things the right way.

William

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 06:30 +0000, Tom Kiesel wrote:
> I can confirm this.
>
> Uninstalling and reinstalling Audacious through apt doesn't fix it.
>
> I moved ~/.config/audacious/ to a backup and started audacious to see if
> corrupted settings were to blame
>
> tom@gecko:~$ audacious
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> A new ~/.config/audacious/ had been created. Its contents:
>
> playlists (empty directory)
> config (empty file)
> log (non-empty file, attached to this post)
>
> /var/log/messages contents:
> ------------------------------------
>
> Mar 29 01:26:24 gecko kernel: [ 626.613389] audacious[7003]: segfault
> at 519fc381 eip b79b985c esp bff53bf0 error 4
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "log"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12959949/log
>

[James Schriver (dashua)]

Yep, I just figured that out. Thanks.

[James Schriver (dashua)]

Just rebuilt crossfade from source and all is working fine again.

[Tom Kiesel (tom-nonotyet)]

I uninstalled audacious-crossfade, and audacious now works properly.

I'm using the one from the repository, not compiling my own.

So is there a way to get the audacious-crossfade package updated, or move this bug to that package?

[seagle (seagle0128)]

Yes. I encountered the same problem, and I uninstalled crossfade plugin. It works.
In repository the package is bad. Maybe should rebuild or remove it, or many people will have trouble.
Please fix it as soon as possible.

[Tom Kiesel (tom-nonotyet)]

Seems to me that this bug does exist.

[Tom Kiesel (tom-nonotyet)]

We're shipping a plugin that breaks the parent program today.

There's a simple solution listed here by William Pitcock roughly one month ago: rebuild the plugin with updated source so that the program and plugin are on the same page.

I tested this again today. Installing audacious-crossfade causes audacious to segfault on startup. Removing audacious-crossfade makes audacious work again.

I wish I knew what to do to accelerate the process. Attach a checkinstall .deb? :)

[Forest Bond (forest-bond)]

Nominating this bug for SRU. Only a rebuild of audacious-crossfade is necessary to fix this.

[Forest Bond (forest-bond)]

Not attaching a debdiff as it would contain a changelog entry only.