Launchpad has imported 1 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48779.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-04-16T11:13:02+00:00 Courmisch wrote: Start VLC under padsp on Linux: # padsp vlc -Idummy vlc://quit VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547) Segmentation fault The same process runs and exits fine without padsp. In fact, even this trivial and obviously correct piece of C code crashes with padsp while calling glibc freopen(): ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<---- #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { FILE *stream; stream = fopen("/dev/null", "w+t"); if (stream == NULL) abort(); stream = freopen("/dev/null", "w+t", stream); if (stream == NULL) abort(); fclose(stream); return 0; } ---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8---- I suspect the root cause is similar to this (Firefox bug): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/810214/comments/8 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1071593/comments/0 ** Changed in: pulseaudio Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: pulseaudio Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071593 Title: quantal vlc segfaults or freezes Status in PulseAudio sound server: Confirmed Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: vlc segfaults when i launch it with: PULSE_SERVER=localhost:4716 ALSA_PCM_NAME=pulse padsp vlc /dev/cdrom >>/tmp/vlc.$$.ort 2>&1 and if i just launch it with "vlc", it shows a window with a orange striped cone, i select media->open disc, and the window ceases to render, staying all grey. works fine in natty. failures are in freshly installed (and updated) quantal: ii vlc 2.0.4-0ubuntu1 i386 multimedia player and streamer reinstalled from scratch, same result. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1071593/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
