Crash when using a skin

[sebwouaib]

Hi,

My config :
- VLC 0.8.5
- Suse 10.1 x86_64

When I want to use the skins2 interface, VLC crashes.

Sorry no log because ... I have tried to post 4 times the log and each time a mysql error occured with "adding word" error....

I can post part of log if necessary

Thanks for help

[ipkiss]

What do you do exactly to get the crash?
Did you try resetting your preferences?
You can paste your logs to http://paste.videolan.org/.

[sebwouaib]

here my log :

http://paste.videolan.org/372

I am launching VLC without having any .vlc directory in my home with :

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sebwouaib@sebpc:~> vlc -I skins2 -vv

Thanks for help

[ipkiss]

The crash seem to occur in the FT2Font::drawString method (so when trying to render the font of the skins), but i don't know where exactly.
Could you run the program in gdb please? Just run 'gdb vlc', and at the gdb prompt 'run -vv -I skins2'. Then, after the crash, type 'bt' to have a backtrace with line numbers...

[sebwouaib]

http://paste.videolan.org/376

thanks for helping me

[ipkiss]

Hum, your last output doesn't correspond to a crash, and it has nothing to do with the first output.
Let's do this differently: in your shell, run 'ulimit -c unlimited', then 'vlc -I skins2 -vv'. This will generate a core file in the current directory (named core.<pid> probably). Then run 'gdb vlc core_file', and at the gdb prompt type 'bt' for the backtrace.

Thanks for your help too

[sebwouaib]

ulimit -c unlimited
vlc -I skins2 -vv

http://paste.videolan.org/378

gdb vlc core.7178
bt

http://paste.videolan.org/379

in my previous log, I do not have deleted my .vlc directory

[ipkiss]

Unfortunately, there is still no line number
I guess that you would have to compile vlc in debug mode to get it (or to use a nightly build). Do you feel like trying it? Without the line number of the crash, and without being able to reproduce it myself, i don't see how to fix it...

[sebwouaib]

what should I do exactly in order to compile correctly VLC ? (which commands)

configure, make, make install ?

[ipkiss]

Yes, basically. The hardest part is to have the needed dependencies, but in your case you can disable most of them. Just make sure to use --enable-skins2 and --enable-freetype. ffmpeg may be useful too.
Have a look at the INSTALL file in the source tree...