invalid page fault in MSVCRT.DLL

[rdean]

Just installed on a 98se box. Have installed on 98se, 2000, and XP before. First problem. Great program. Am at a loss. Re-installed. Downloaded from another site. Made sure everything is up to date. No luck. Any ideas?

VLC caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 0167:780150b3.
Registers:
EAX=00000031 CS=0167 EIP=780150b3 EFLGS=00210206
EBX=00d5fa1c SS=016f ESP=00d5f9d0 EBP=00d5f9f8
ECX=00ee2580 DS=016f ESI=00000031 FS=21bf
EDX=00ee1c70 ES=016f EDI=00000031 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b6 07 50 e8 a8 dd ff ff 85 c0 59 75 3a 50 50
Stack dump:
00efd650 00000000 00000003 00002700 00efd650 00efd650 00d5fa68 649ec522 64b424d0 00d5fb90 00d5faa8 64952c12 00000031 00d5fa1c 00efd650 000027af

[Guest]

This problem has been reported from time to time, but nobody cared to help us debug it (we do not manage to reproduce it ourselves...). It would be great if you could answer the following questions:

- First, please give the version of VLC.
- Delete the preferences file. Is it better?
- Does the bug appear at VLC start up, or later when you do a specific action (like opening the preferences, playing a file, etc...)
- If the problem appears at VLC start-up, try moving all the files from the "plugins" directory to anywhere else, and restart vlc. Is VLC still crashing? (Beware, since you will have no interface plugin, you will have to kill by hand the running vlc.exe task, with ctrl+alt+suppr).
- In case moving the plugins prevented the crash to happen, it would be great if you could identify the guilty one(s) (a way to do that is to add them back one after another, or by small chunks; you may want to start with the libwxwindows_plugin.dll or libskins2_plugin.dll, so that you will have an interface and it's not necessary to kill the VLC process everytime)

[rdean]

I've installed on 70+ machines here at school. Prefer VLC over the commercial options. They cause to many distractions with our students. I try to educate our staff and students with options that are not heavily advertised.

Boxes are a mixture of Windows OS. Not a problem until I installed it on my daughters PC after reloading Win98se. Go figure. Clean install and all.

Not there now but I will try what you said. What I've done so far. Tried the 2 dl's from France and 1 from NL in .exe. When that failed I did the same with the zipped versions. Each time I uninstalled VLC, deleted directory, rebooted then performed the install. Always the same result. Click the icon to start VLC. It opens with an error message over top. soon as you click OK on the error message VLC closes. Entire error in previous post.

[markfm]

Do you have all MS updates/service packs for 98 installed?

[rdean]

All updates installed. security patches, WMP, directx, IE6 even though it is not used. We use Fifefox. It is setup exactly like the pc's at school. Only the hardware and WIN98 license is different. Do not use M$ Office. Staroffice is used. All applications in use are up to date with patches. Games have not been loaded yet. Shockwave and Flash are up to date. Java is the latest build.

[markfm]

There's an MS article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192123

(Don't worry that it doesn't list VLC -- MS isn't always up to date

You might want to try installing the libraries update that is referenced. It sounds like it might be the appropriate fix.

[Guest]

I get the same problem with 98SE. Launching VLC from the "VLC Media Player" shortcut usually, but not always, fails with:

VLC caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 01a7:780150b3.

However, launching VLC from the "VLC Media PLayer (skins)" shortcut works OK.

This seems to be a problem with MSVCRT version 6.10.8293.0 which is what I have in windows\system. If I copy MSVCRT version 6.00.8337.0 (which comes with Sun Java) into my VLC directory and remove MSVCRT from KnownDlls in the registry (see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=151646) then it works fine.

[echino]

Same problem here. I too am running Win98se.

VLC caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 01a7:780150b3

I tried updating libraries using the patch at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192123

The error problem persists.

[x1009]

I remember a similar problem in games. In those cases it was the video or sound card driver, I think...