VLC crashes when quitting

[Frydek]

Hi,

VLC crashes (it seems) randomly most of time when quitting. Only way is to force quit.
I tried a few versions and currently using the latest one. An I'm running OS 10.4.11 but it was the same with previous versions of OS 10.4.

Any idea?

[swya]

I randomly get this as well, only I am on OS 10.5.4

This has been happen on all stable releases I've used as well as the nightlies. It seems to happen a lot more if I quit while something is actually playing than if the player is idle, although I have no tests/logs to back this up.

Thanks,
swya

[Frydek]

Yeah it does seem to happen more when vlc is playing but also happens (not as often) when the player is idle

[wooo]

I'm seeing this too, and since I'm using VLC as a transcoder in the background of a commercial app, I see it a lot... (on my demo server for one). I have plenty of crash dumps, if anyone's interested. Running it on intel64, mac os x 10.5.4.

[pdherbemont]

VLC crashes (it seems) randomly most of time when quitting. Only way is to force quit.
I tried a few versions and currently using the latest one. An I'm running OS 10.4.11 but it was the same with previous versions of OS 10.4.

Does it still happen?

I'm seeing this too, and since I'm using VLC as a transcoder in the background of a commercial app, I see it a lot... (on my demo server for one). I have plenty of crash dumps, if anyone's interested. Running it on intel64, mac os x 10.5.4.

Please send it. (only the crashing thread if possible)

This is highly probable that this have been fixed recently.

[wooo]

Hmm, this dump is looking pretty unhelpful actually... but they're all identical... same thread, etc. Let me know if you want more info,
Steve



Process: clivlc [45091]
Path: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/clivlc
Identifier: clivlc
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: JavaApplicationStub [201]

Date/Time: 2008-08-04 11:12:29.816 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000039a0ff0
Crashed Thread: 5

..... removed other threads .......

Thread 5 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0xffff0f38 __memcpy + 1944

Thread 5 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xffff0700 ebx: 0xffffffff ecx: 0x00000030 edx: 0xfffb8000
edi: 0x039e9030 esi: 0x01917248 ebp: 0xb02888d8 esp: 0xb02888d0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0xffff0f38 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x039a0ff0

[wooo]

Not sure if this one's any more help... this happened hitting ctrl-c at the commandline (first time didn't work, second time gave this seg fault):

Process: clivlc [13134]
Path: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/clivlc
Identifier: clivlc
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: tcsh [237]

Date/Time: 2008-08-06 12:34:58.246 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000006e6961dd
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 clivlc 0x000dfe47 playlist_ItemDelete + 16

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x01212cf0 ebx: 0x000dfe43 ecx: 0x01212cf0 edx: 0x6e69616d
edi: 0x00000001 esi: 0x6e69616d ebp: 0x01242cb0 esp: 0xbffff430
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00210286 eip: 0x000dfe47 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x6e6961dd

[wooo]

Ok, this is officially not just happening on exit, but sometimes in the middle of a stream!
What can I do to help find get this fixed? is there a debug flag or something I can run to get more useful info?

[pdherbemont]

What version are you using? You should test against 0.9.0-test3 or nightlies.

We don't work on 0.8.6 anymore

Pierre.

[elhoyos]

There's another thread suffering (i think) of the same problem: VLC 0.8.6h no video and crash on .avi.

[elhoyos]

Well, I've just tested the last nightly build vlc-git-intel-20080922-0249 and things are a bit different for me now and confirms the thread: There's no video & It crashes when quitting.

[pdherbemont]

Nightlies are broken. Known issue. And they'll be for a long time...

[elhoyos]

I've now installed 0.9.3 for Intel and it isn't crashing anymore. Great news.