1.1.8 from ppa:maverick-bleed/ppa crashes at end of media

[johnea]

Hello,

In order to overcome screensaver issues I recently upgraded vlc to 1.1.8 on ubuntu 10.10 via the maverick-bleed/ppa per:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=86959&p=287875&hil ... 5d#p287875

This upgrade now has a more serious issue of not continuing once it reaches the end of media.

There are numerous mkv and mp4 files listed in the playlist, if I click the "Next Media" button the screen blanks and playback stops.

The application doesn't come to a complete halt, it just stops playing media. The menus still display on click, but will not respond to media commands.

I started vlc from command line and the following output is generated when the fault occurs:

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many repeats of "Up cannot escape itself" m_el[mi_level] == NULL arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself m_el[mi_level] == NULL arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself QStackedWidget::setCurrentWidget: widget 0x87d16a0 not contained in stack m_el[mi_level] == NULL arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself

I then attached to the running process with gdb and obtained the following traceback:

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mark@tiny:~$ sudo gdb /usr/bin/vlc 1949 (gdb) bt #0 0x00c50416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x0011a4dc in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #2 0x002f0613 in vlc_cond_wait () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4 #3 0x00323af8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4 Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) quit A debugging session is active. Inferior 1 [process 1949] will be detached.

Some stack error seems to have occured.

Any advice is appreciated, including instructions for downgrading back to stock from a ppa upgrade.

Many Thanks...

johnea

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That stack trace is probably not from the crashing thread. So hard to say anything.

[johnea]

Dang, I keep getting phpBB crashes when I try to post 8-(

Thanks for your reply Rémi!

Have you heard of anyone else having this error at media boundary?

This is an upgrade to ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04 with no other third party repos other than the maverick-bleed/ppa.

Thanks again for sharing your vast experience!

johnea

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

People often have problems wit PPA's. It's difficult to keep track though. You should install vlc-dbg from the PPA, and use 'thread apply all bt' from gdb.