Bug#798763: vlc: segfault if vlc and libvlc5/libvlccore8/vlc-data out of sync

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: severity -1 serious

On 2015-09-13 17:03:14, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:33:51PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 normal
> > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
> > 
> > On 2015-09-12 13:21:58, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
> >> after upgrade, vlc started segfaulting on startup. This was solved by:
> 
> >> [UPGRADE] libvlc5:amd64 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1 -> 2.2.1-3
> >> [UPGRADE] libvlccore8:amd64 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1 -> 2.2.1-3
> >> [UPGRADE] vlc-data:amd64 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1 -> 2.2.1-3
> >> [UPGRADE] vlc-plugin-pulse:amd64 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1 -> 2.2.1-3
> 
> > I am unable to reproduce the issue. I've installed vlc, vlc-plugin-pulse and
> > vlc-plugin-sambda in jessie, marked vlc-data, vlc-plugin-pulse, libvlc5 and
> > libvlccore5 as hold and upgraded to unstable.
> 
> > Please provide the output of vlc -vvv until the crash and a backtrace including
> > symbols (by installing vlc-dbg and liblua5.2-0-dbg).
> 
> Downgrading only libvlc5 was not enough to reproduce, and downgrading
> libblccore8 forced me to downgrade also vlc-data and vlc-plugin-pulse.
> 
> vlc -vvv output attached. I installed vlc-dbg version 2.2.1-3 (not
> 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1) since that's the one the dependencies let me
> install.

Thank you. Found the issue and a fix is one the way.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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