Bug#441766: vlc: segfaults with new glib

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007, brian m. carlson wrote:
> After installing libglib2.0-0 2.14.0 (which I did some time ago), vlc
> now crashes when using any interface using GTK (and hence, glib).  I
> checked some time ago and discovered that downgrading libglib2.0-0 (and
> obviously, the corresponding GTK packages) fixed this problem.  This
> leads me to believe that this is related to the g_thread_init() issue.
> See e.g. #428854.

 Which interfaces did you try this with?  I suggest you try the skins2
 interface.  The wxwidgets interface seems to crash in wxwidgets code,
 but unfortunately Debian only has a quite old wxwidgets library right
 now, so it's not very interesting to chase down this bug until it's
 updated.

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Loïc Minier