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Ozium

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Registered: 2015-05-05

Posts: 2

[solved] segfault during vlc-cache-gen

Hi everyone!

During the update today, the installation of vlc segfaulted. This happens everytime (even at reinstall and downgrading to a different version of vlc). The last time I -Syu'd was April 10th.

(1/1) Installiere vlc                                                  [#######################################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_Z1YR0I/.INSTALL: Zeile 1:  5363 Speicherzugriffsfehler  (Speicherabzug geschrieben) usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib/vlc/plugins

Now I can't use vlc anymore.

$ vlc -v
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
[00000000023d2118] core libvlc warning: cannot read /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat: No such file or directory
Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben)

If I run »sudo /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib/vlc/plugins«, there is no output… but there es no plugins.dat either.

dmesg:

[ 2476.582564] traps: vlc-cache-gen[1619] general protection ip:7f2f5887c150 sp:7ffca69a6b18 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f2f5886a000+18000]
[ 2528.211727] traps: vlc[3744] general protection ip:7f7397931150 sp:7fff038713d8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f739791f000+18000]

If I try to run vlc --no-plugins-cache there is no libvlc warning but still a segfault.

I dont't know what I should do. I'm sure there are other programs segfault too, but I didn't stumbled upon them yet (maybe the problem is vlc only).

Any suggestions, what I can/should do?

I need to know where I fucked it up :-/

PS: the outputs are in german… I really hope that »Speicherzugriffsfehler« is a segfault

Last edited by Ozium (2015-05-06 07:30:36)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] segfault during vlc-cache-gen

Try https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1523241

Edit:
Run

LC_ALL=C <command>

to get the output in English.

Last edited by karol (2015-05-05 21:57:41)

Ozium

Member

Registered: 2015-05-05

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] segfault during vlc-cache-gen

Thanks for the link karol!

I wonder why I didn't find this thread by myself… I didn't research properly for sure. :-/

However: microcode it was… now everything seems to run fine :-)

for the sake of completeness:

$ export LC_ALL=C
$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ lscpu | grep name
Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz