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Happens every time, even after running the delete preferences script. G4 iMac.

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Host Name: iMac.local
Date/Time: 2006-12-11 12:10:12 -0500
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: VLC
Path: /Applications/vlc-0.8.6/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Version: 0.8.6 (0.8.6)
PID: 446
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x03198d40

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0x03198d40 0 + 0x3198d40
1 org.videolan.vlc 0x000042a4 our_atexit + 0x7c
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002ce38 exit + 0x58
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x00003350 _start + 0x2fc
4 org.videolan.vlc 0x00003050 start + 0x30

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x03198d40 srr1: 0x4200d030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x44000444 xer: 0x20000004 lr: 0x00003ff0 ctr: 0x03198d40
r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0xbffffcc0 r2: 0x01b4acf0 r3: 0x00000000
r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x00000002 r6: 0xffffff98 r7: 0x00000001
r8: 0x00000000 r9: 0x03198d40 r10: 0x90013c40 r11: 0xa000457c
r12: 0x03198d40 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00000000 r25: 0x00000002 r26: 0xbffffee8 r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0xa0009194 r29: 0xa0009198 r30: 0xbffffcc0 r31: 0x9002cde8

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this doesn't look good at all. Make sure that ~/Library/Preferences contains nothing named "VLC" in any way and download & install VLC again if you can't find anything. Do you get any random crashes in other applications btw.?

Can you please try with 0.8.6-rc1, if following Fkuehne's advice doesn't work?

That version contains "debug" code which will make it easier to find the problem.

this doesn't look good at all. Make sure that ~/Library/Preferences contains nothing named "VLC" in any way and download & install VLC again if you can't find anything. Do you get any random crashes in other applications btw.?

Found and removed these items from ~/Library/Preferences/:

org.videolan.vlc.plist
VLC (folder)

Also removed the "VLC.crash.log" from ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/

No other VLC files were found anywhere in my Home directory.

Downloaded and installed a new copy of "vlc-0.8.6-powerpc.dmg". Disk image verified OK.

Launching and quitting application produces the same crash.

No other problems on this system. VLC 0.8.4.a reinstalled and works fine.

Can you please try with 0.8.6-rc1, if following Fkuehne's advice doesn't work?

That version contains "debug" code which will make it easier to find the problem.

OK, done. Crash log below.

Edit: Found RC1 so ran it and attached new crash log.

This is also happening to me on a G4 eMac running 10.3.9.

Went back to 0.8.5 which works fine.

I made a ticket about this issue
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/902

Thanks. I love the player and hope to use the next release.

I got exactly the same problem as described above. I have an iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9. When I want to quit the VLC-player, it crashes, with the window in wich is asked to report the crash to Apple yes or no. I have two times deleted the complete VLC-player, and reïnstalled it ( first the PPC-version, and than the UB-version). But the crashkeeps occuring!

Edit: the player doesn't crash if you put the film FIRST on "pause", and leave than the application.

[...]

Edit: the player doesn't crash if you put the film FIRST on "pause", and leave than the application.

This doesn't make any difference on my system.

I'm running 10.3.9 on an iMac G5 1,8 GHz w/ 1 GB RAM. Have reinstalled VLC 0.8.6 ('a', 'b' and 'bugfix') several times, removed all preferences and the VLC-plugin, but without any improvement whatsoever. After changing the verbosity level to 2 nothing useful shows up in the console log.

This is a _long standing_ issue. Would be great if this not so subtle bug could get a higher priority with the developers.

My most recent crashlog:

Installed VLC 0.8.6c on an iBook G3 with 10.3.9. Crashes on quit whether command comes from menu bar or Cmd-Q. I get a delay, spinning wheel then an Apple crash notification dialog window. Occurs everytime even when just launching and then quitting without playing anything, or after viewing some content. Otherwise I am happy with this build. For the first time I can view some hi-def clips without stuttering due to slow processor ( message I used to get on earlier builds.)

Wow, do I have egg on my face! My previous report was based on my experiences with version 0.8.6c last night. And everything I described did occur, but this morning, after I posted, naturally, I discovered that I no longer had the crash on quit on the G3 OS10.3.9 machine. I wonder if running the chron maintenance scripts has something to do with this?

No, but internal cache can

Installed VLC 0.8.6c on an iBook G3 with 10.3.9. Crashes on quit whether command comes from menu bar or Cmd-Q. I get a delay, spinning wheel then an Apple crash notification dialog window. Occurs everytime even when just launching and then quitting without playing anything, or after viewing some content.

[...]

Same here on an iMac G5 1.8 GHz, running 10.3.9 (first removed any prefs files as always).

With the previous version I had noticed that the crash didn't occur after a launch directly followed by a quit, if I changed the verbosity level to 2 and then back to 0. I now found out that this simply has to do with the existence of the file ~/Library/Preferences/VLC/vlcrc (the prefs file). Not very useful to us video-loving users of course, but it might give the developers a lead. BTW, setting the access rights of the prefs file to 'No access' will make it crash again...

Another thing that might pinpoint the cause: in case the prefs file mentioned above exists, a crash still occurs after 'opening' a non-playable file, for example a '.txt' file (via Cmd-Opt-drop on Dock icon), although this seems little different from launching directly followed by quit. Even more interesting is that, in otherwise the same circumstance, it doesn't crash after opening an _empty_ file!

A tip for avoiding the crash until this is fixed, thereby skipping the long delay of CrashReporter's stack trace processing and the dismissal of its dialogue (apart from using force-quit, which by itself is a bit cumbersome):

Press Cmd-Tab (and/or Cmd-Shift-Tab) until VLC's icon is selected, then hold the Cmd-key down and press Q.

Cheers, Vincent

Same problem using the latest Nightly on iMac Intel CoreDuo OSX10.4.9 ..

Same problem using the latest Nightly on iMac Intel CoreDuo OSX10.4.9 ..

Strange. This crash has now been reported on G3, G4, G5 and Core Duo processors running either OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

Makes me wonder... are there actually any Mac users that don't experience the crash on quit? And are all of them using a Core 2 Intel Mac?

Vincent

Same problem using the latest Nightly on iMac Intel CoreDuo OSX10.4.9 ..

Strange. This crash has now been reported on G3, G4, G5 and Core Duo processors running either OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

Makes me wonder... are there actually any Mac users that don't experience the crash on quit? And are all of them using a Core 2 Intel Mac?

Vincent

I'm having this problem on a Core 2 Duo Macbook. The latest update didn't help.

I'm having this problem too with a recent nightly (~5 days ago methinks). I'm on the newest Macbook Pro, with 10.4.10.

Same problem using the latest Nightly on iMac Intel CoreDuo OSX10.4.9 ..

Strange. This crash has now been reported on G3, G4, G5 and Core Duo processors running either OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

Makes me wonder... are there actually any Mac users that don't experience the crash on quit? And are all of them using a Core 2 Intel Mac?

Vincent

I upgraded to 0.8.6c - I run OSX 10.4 intel core duo on mac mini and crashes every time on exit. This did not happen with 0.8.6b. I've downgraded back to the "b" release until this can be fixed.

Although it's by no means a fix, a little tip for those of us affected by the problem: You can make a little Automator script that kills VLC. Select the "Run Shell Command" action and type in "killall VLC" without quotes. Save it as an application. Now whenever I have to close VLC I just bring up KillVLC from Quicksilver. Not perfect but it gets the job done

this trick works with VLC 0.8.6 on OS X 10.3.9:

1. Pause movie you're watching
2. go back to Finder
3. right-click on the Dock at VLC icon (which is on since its running) and select 'Quit' from popup menu.

VLC will quit properly w/o crashing.

"China, get good Karma and grant autonomy to Tibet."

Sorry, here's corrected steps on how to quit w/o crashing (no more need to go to Finder, and its Ctrl-click not Right-click):

This works with 0.8.6c of VLC on OS X 10.3.9:

1. pause movie you're watching
2. ctrl-click the VLC icon on the Dock.
3. pick 'quit' from popup menu

VLC will quit w/o crashing.

"China get good karma--grant Tibet autonomy"