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Laman

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Registered: 2020-07-18

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[SOLVED] Mpv SIGSEGVs after update

After I updated today, my mpv started crashing (SIGSEGV). I couldn't exactly pinpoint the issue, but I suspect it has to do with Nvidia drivers. VLC is working fine. I've discovered that if I list available video outputs (mpv --vo=help) and try other than "gpu", that is "xv", "x11" or "sdl", I get a warning about an obsolete VO, but the video is playing.

I couldn't find the issue reported here or elsewhere, so I started this thread. I suppose it will eventually resolve on its own with another update.

> pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-gbm 1.1.3-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.1-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.5-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/libvdpau 1.5-4
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260410-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-open 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA open kernel modules
local/nvidia-utils 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 595.71.05-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.18-1 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

Last edited by Laman (2026-05-04 08:41:56)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Mpv SIGSEGVs after update

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

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Laman

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Re: [SOLVED] Mpv SIGSEGVs after update

Thanks, confirmed Nvidia issue.

> coredumpctl info mpv

           PID: 167556 (mpv)
           UID: 1000 (laman)
           GID: 1000 (laman)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Thu 2026-04-30 18:24:34 CEST (5s ago)
  Command Line: mpv /tmp/vid.webm
    Executable: /usr/bin/mpv
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope
          Unit: session-2.scope
         Slice: user-1000.slice
       Session: 2
     Owner UID: 1000 (laman)
       Boot ID: 033a40e6261240da87ea04bfb19ebd0c
    Machine ID: 12e07fbe89f4454c93d613cb7e1eae0b
      Hostname: starplatinum
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.mpv.1000.033a40e6261240da87ea04bfb19ebd0c.167556.177>
  Size on Disk: 5.8M
       Message: Process 167556 (mpv) of user 1000 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 167572:
                #0  0x00007ffa606b70c8 n/a (libnvidia-gpucomp.so.595.71.05 + 0xab70c8)
                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

> coredumpctl debug 167556
...
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffa606b70c8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnvidia-gpucomp.so.595.71.05
#1  0x00007ffa64804ea0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnvidia-gpucomp.so.595.71.05
#2  0x00007ffa6e47ee38 in ?? ()
#3  0x00007ffa6e47d8f0 in ?? ()
#4  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

I've tried running mpv through gdb to get complete traceback (pasted here), but I can't see anything better there.
I'll be probably unable to investigate it further till the next week and if the next step is building the nvidia package with debug symbols, I might postpone it further.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Mpv SIGSEGVs after update

Did you update to linux 7.0.2 ? Do you get the same w/ the LTS kernel?

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Laman

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Re: [SOLVED] Mpv SIGSEGVs after update

Yes, the issue occured with the 7.0.2 kernel. I haven't tried the LTS, but after update to 7.0.3 (and nvidia-open 595.71.05-2), the mpv started working again.
Marking as solved.