Bug#599329: vainfo segfaults

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 07:51:14 (CET), Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 06:43:20AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> >> $ vainfo
>> >> libva: libva version 0.31.1
>> >> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>> >> libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>> >> libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
>> >> zsh: segmentation fault  vainfo
>> >> 
>> >> If I downgrade only libva11, vainfo still segfaults. If I downgrade only
>> >> libva-x11-1, vainfo can't load nvidia_drv_video.so. If I downgrade both libva1
>> >> and libva-x11-1, vainfo works. I have an nVidia card with nvidia-glx, nvidia-
>> >> vdpau-driver etc. from experimental.
>> > I've upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 and the situation appeared again. vainfo
>> > and vlc with VAAPI enabled segfault with libva-x11-1 1.0.8 and work with
>> > 1.0.7.
>> 
>> Can you please provide an (updated) backtrace, please?
> #0  0x00007ffff73440e0 in XDisplayString () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
> #1  0x00007ffff64b3e62 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
> #2  0x00007ffff64b47c3 in __vaDriverInit_0_31 () from
> /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
> #3  0x00007ffff7bba242 in vaInitialize () from /usr/lib/libva.so.1
> #4  0x0000000000400a92 in ?? ()
> #5  0x00007ffff766bc4d in __libc_start_main (main=<value optimized out>,
> argc=<value optimized out>, ubp_av=<value optimized out>, 
>     init=<value optimized out>, fini=<value optimized out>,
> rtld_fini=<value optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe6a8) at
> libc-start.c:228
> #6  0x0000000000400959 in ?? ()
> #7  0x00007fffffffe6a8 in ?? ()
> #8  0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
> #9  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
> #10 0x00007fffffffe9bf in ?? ()
> #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Unfortunaltly, this backtrace is not helpful. Could you please retry
with debug symbol so that we can see what's actually going wrong?

The only thing that I can see is that nvidia_drv_video.so is
involved. Doesn't VDPAU work for you?

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