Bug#785560: vlc: crash, dumps core when watching a video

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Hi Raymond

On 2015-05-17 12:36:16, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.0~rc2-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> vlc crashes and dumps core.
> 
> gdb backtrace:
> 
> [New LWP 1888]
> [New LWP 1638]
> [New LWP 1636]
> [New LWP 1640]
> [New LWP 1641]
> [New LWP 1652]
> [New LWP 1637]
> [New LWP 1889]
> [New LWP 1639]
> [New LWP 1653]
> [New LWP 1886]
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-
> gnu/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
> Core was generated by `/usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xa98c7c95 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.56
> #0  0xa98c7c95 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.56

Thank you for your bug report. Could you please install vlc-dbg and libav-dbg
and provide us with a backtrace including symbols?

The crash locations suggests this might be a bug in libav. Does playing the file
with avplay also crash?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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