Bug#441766: vlc: segfaults with new glib

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Using the skins2 interface causes crashes almost identical to the
> wxwidgets code, down to the wxwidgets backtrace

 Hmm I don't think this is exactly the same crash because the crash in
 the wxwidgets interface seems to be within wxwidgets while the crash in
 skins2 doesn't happen with vlc's SVN version which uses the same
 wxwidgets version here.

 Anyway, to sum up:

           version:     debian          svn
           ====================================
interface:
wxwidgets               fails           fails
skins2                  fails           works

 You can use the following workaround in all cases:
    G_SLICE=always-malloc vlc

 The skins2 issue should be fixed with the next release of VLC, but the
 wxwidgets one will probably only be fixed by a new wxwidgets upload.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier