Hi everyone ! Considering the potentially very wide scope of a bug that would freeze the X server, could you guys & gals give more details ?
- OS / ARCH - GPU - Proprietary or open source driver ? - X or Wayland ? - Any PPA ? - How often the bug occurs ? Is it completely random ? - Does it occur with specific videos ? Codecs ? - Does it only occur when seeking into the video ? - In the VLC preferences, what video mode chosen ? - Does it freeze only VLC, the whole session or the whole server ? Can you kill it from the console ? - Do you have similar freezes / crashes in other apps ? As for me : it occurs in Ubuntu 16.04 (KDE Neon actually). Nvidia GTX 1060 + proprietary driver. Bug is random and occurs when seeking a lot into the video. It seems only to occur in VDPAU mode (hardware decoding). I have no other crash at all in any video player or even complex Steam game. I didn't double check with other VDPAU player. This is potentially a massive bug (it occurred on secveral of my machines and freezes the whole session)... Maybe it'll just "disappear" when switching to VLC 3 or Wayland... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574354 Title: playing .mp4 in VLC freezes machine Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: VLC was running fine on 15.10 but since upgrading, video files (e.g. .mp4) play for a few minutes and then crash the whole machine (i.e. I have to power off and on). Possibly linked is that audio (in web pages or playing audio files thru Banshee) loops (stutters) for about a second every few minutes (but doesn't crash the machine). vlc-nox: /usr/bin/vlc Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 vlc: Installed: 2.2.2-5 Candidate: 2.2.2-5 Version table: *** 2.2.2-5 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: vlc 2.2.2-5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Apr 24 19:20:41 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-17 (797 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: vlc UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1574354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
