Bug 20248

Can you please test with vlc 3.0.0 from updates_testing?

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Sorry, it is no different.  I did a normal update with updates-testing enabled.  It seemed to replace all packages.  Cauldron doesn't have a user config file I can remove.

x86_64, nvidia GTX970
There is a fault with vlc when installed from GNOME after installation of the latest GNOME Live iso.  It may be associated with his bug.

vlc segfaults on the command line invoked using e.g.
$ vlc cpr.mov
and this occurs with both free and tainted versions.

The vlc installation included svlc and ended with a scriptlet error; extract:

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gGcX0e: line 3:
11342 Segmentation fault
/usr/lib64/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins
warning: %triggerin(vlc-2.2.4-9.mga6.x86_64)
scriptlet failed .... error status 139
'script' failed for svlc-2.2.4-9....

dmesg indicates that the segfault occurs in libGL.

I tried removing vlc and svlc and reinstalling vlc without svlc; scriptlet failed again but this time at plugin-theora.

$ ls /usr/lib64/vlc
lua/  plugins/  vlc-cache-gen* 
$ ls /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins
access/         codec/    meta_engine/         stream_filter/  video_output/
access_output/  control/  misc/                stream_out/     video_splitter/
audio_filter/   demux/    mux/                 text_renderer/  visualization/
audio_mixer/    gui/      packetizer/          video_chroma/

CC: (none) => tarazed25

Installed vlc-3.0 from tainted updates testing without any errors.
vlc still segfaults but without any additional information.  The last line of dmesg contains the only reference to vlc:
[ 2397.573934] vlc[7304]: segfault at 7f0d3fec3220 ip 00007f0d3de8e042 sp 00007ffc4593e2d0 error 7 in libGL.so.375.26[7f0d3ddde000+c9000]

The boot journal has no references to vlc.
Running under strace gives this:

close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x7f74e4b97000, 4096)            = 0
write(2, "[\33[32;1m0000000001d56188\33[0m] ", 30[0000000001d56188] ) = 30
write(2, "core libvlc error: \33[31;1m", 26core libvlc error: ) = 26
write(2, "No plugins found! Check your VLC"..., 46No plugins found! Check your VLC installation.) = 46
write(2, "\33[0m\n", 5
)                 = 5

Also, there is world read and execute permissions on all the files in the /usr/lib64/vlc hierarchy.

# /usr/lib64/vlc/vlc-cache-gen  /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

dmesg again shows that libGL is involved.

Now crashing on 5.1 as well.

(In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #7)
> Now crashing on 5.1 as well.

Huh? What is 5.1? MGA5 updated?

(In reply to José Jorge from comment #8)
> (In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #7)
> > Now crashing on 5.1 as well.
> 
> Huh? What is 5.1? MGA5 updated?

If that's a genuine question, you need to start following mailing lists and maybe our blog... http://blog.mageia.org/en/2016/12/02/happily-announcing-mageia-5-1/

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #9)
> (In reply to José Jorge from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #7)
> > > Now crashing on 5.1 as well.
> > 
> > Huh? What is 5.1? MGA5 updated?
> 
> If that's a genuine question, you need to start following mailing lists and
> maybe our blog...
> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2016/12/02/happily-announcing-mageia-5-1/

Of course it wasn't. But this bug talks about vlc on MGA6, so I am surprised that it now talks about MGA5 and wanted to ensure. I have a MGA5 with proprietery nv 319 here that does not crash at all in vlc...

I just reinstalled 5.1 with the current VLC.  VLC won't start.  I assumed that the one in Cauldron had made it to the 5.1 release.  It had the same codename as the release in Cauldron (Whipstick, or something similar.  Whipstick Forest is the name of our local State Forest.)

(In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #11)
> I just reinstalled 5.1 with the current VLC.  VLC won't start.  I assumed
> that the one in Cauldron had made it to the 5.1 release.  It had the same
> codename as the release in Cauldron (Whipstick, or something similar. 
> Whipstick Forest is the name of our local State Forest.)

Did you keep your home directory? I suspect you are not using vlc in it's default settings.

Ypou were right.  I renamed .config/vlc, and vlc started normally.  The usual nuisance message "Unable to load extensions module." The RPM is 

vlc-2.2.4-1.mga5.

That nuisance message might go away if you also install svlc (which helps manage skins).

I don't know if I would bother.  I rarely use the command line, only the default GUI.  

The VLC release is Weatherwax

Closing as this is a config problem.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

The issue on 5.1 is a config problem.  Still need to test on sta2.

No problem on sta2 either. Running on a clean install of sta2, all on one partition, no existing config directory.  But that is how I normally install Cauldron.

Anyway, no action needed unless it happens again.