VLC crashes every time it's used [Solved]

[Objekt]

For the last week or so, I've been using Mint's Movie Player because VLC Media Player crashes constantly.

I'm using Mint 12 (32-bit) and VLC 1.1.12. I've tried playing *.iso's, *.avi's, and *.mkv's. VLC always crashes immediately.

Any suggestions for diagnosing the problem? I suspect some recent update broke VLC - it was working fine for months beforehand - but I don't know where to start looking.

[zerozero]

the easiest way to start diagnosing the proble (tho this doesn't mean that we can find a cure) is type vlc into the terminal, use it until it crashes, save the error msgs you have in the terminal and pastebin them here
http://pastebin.com/

[Objekt]

I tried that this morning. Looks like I'm getting some kind of segmentation fault as soon as I try to play something.

I'll paste from the command line later, when I'm sitting at the Mint machine.

like now.

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objekt@Gateway ~ $ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Warning: call to srand(1336486852)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x9a1392c] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:13144): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
   Using the fallback 'C' locale.
"sni-qt/13144" WARN  08:20:53.464 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
Segmentation fault


[xernos]

http://blog.koppi.me/2012/01/howto-fix- ... ntu-11-10/

Maybe this will help .

[Objekt]

No, I still get the same errors.

[xernos]

Ok try this:

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sudo -i
add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

This will add unoficiall repository and upgrade your VLC and some libs to new version.

[Objekt]

Thanks, that did the trick. The new version doesn't crash.

[Hitman1]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with Mint 12 KDE. VLC crashing on any vidoe file with a segmentation fault.
I followed the above instruction, but apt-dist-upgrade didnt upgrade anything.

Is there a new repository or something?