Hi,
I'm seeing segfaults with VLC similar to those reported here:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2013-January/059168.htm...
This is on Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest alsa-lib package (1.0.25-1ubuntu10.2) and the following patches also applied:
* 2cfc8b9b44a8e493c41b3d63d5a00b306a18a5ed snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf(): use thread-safe getgrnam_r() * 44c1a623dd1fc9e831616b663bebc54ca98df994 Add snd_lib_error_set_local() to install a thread-local error handler. * 25dbb102810b31c02358904d70d53c960fb0a10e snd_device_name_hint(): do not change the global error handler. * f49b2dc522a2564315c76d075203b15a39941e8a snd_device_name_hint(): do not use global snd_config. * 7f2b2c8c1650a1883b48abfcdb455138943854f9 conf: Fix a memory access violation resulting from improper error propogation
So I think there are still issues when calling snd_device_name_hint(-1, ...).
Here is the backtrace:
#0 0x003f0e78 in __strcpy_chk () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x0625084b in strcpy (__src=0x0, __dest=0xb6025e80 "pcm.(null)") at /usr/include/i386-li nux-gnu/bits/string3.h:105 #2 try_config (config=0xaf1c4df0, list=0xb52fe804, base=0x323e962 "pcm", name=0x0) at nameh int.c:243 #3 0x06251bc5 in add_software_devices (list=0xb52fe804, config=0xaf1c4df0) at namehint.c:51 2 #4 snd_device_name_hint (card=-1, iface=<optimized out>, hints=0xb52fe90c) at namehint.c:59 1 #5 0x0323c9bb in GetDevices (obj=0xb6271700, item=0x0, prefs_dev=<optimized out>) at alsa.c :721 #6 0x0323d4c0 in Probe (dev=0xb6011df8 "default", obj=0xb6271700) at alsa.c:161 #7 Open (obj=0xb6271700) at alsa.c:539 #8 0x0a6c73d0 in generic_start (func=0x323cd10, ap=0xb52fed98 "\273") at modules/modules.c:422 #9 0x0a6c7a3a in vlc_module_load (p_this=0xb6271700, psz_capability=0xa70b959 "audio output", psz_name=<optimized out>, b_strict=false, probe=0xa6c73c0 <generic_start>) at modules/modules.c:347 #10 0x0a6c8002 in module_need (obj=0xb6271700, cap=0xa70b959 "audio output", name=0xa70d2bd "$aout", strict=false) at modules/modules.c:437 #11 0x0a6b1242 in aout_OutputNew (p_aout=0xb6271700, p_format=0xb52feeac) at audio_output/output.c:59 #12 0x0a6ad77f in aout_DecNew (p_aout=0xb6271700, p_format=0xb52feeac, p_replay_gain=0xaef02a14, p_request_vout=0xb52feed0) at audio_output/dec.c:112 #13 0x0a67066e in aout_new_buffer (p_dec=0xaef02870, i_samples=1024) at input/decoder.c:2286 #14 0x0a672690 in decoder_NewAudioBuffer (p_decoder=0xaef02870, i_size=1024) at input/decoder.c:213 #15 0x04032f8c in DecodeBlock (p_dec=0xaef02870, pp_block=0xb52ff05c) at faad.c:464 #16 0x0a670891 in DecoderDecodeAudio (p_dec=0xaef02870, p_block=0xaef03000) at input/decoder.c:1291 #17 0x0a6716f5 in DecoderProcessAudio (b_flush=false, p_block=0xaef03000, p_dec=0xaef02870) at input/decoder.c:1936 #18 DecoderProcess (p_dec=0xaef02870, p_block=<optimized out>) at input/decoder.c:2059 #19 0x0a671959 in DecoderThread (p_data=0xaef02870) at input/decoder.c:938 #20 0x001fbd4c in start_thread () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 #21 0x003ddace in clone () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
As a work around I will probably patch VLC to not call snd_device_name_hint this way. I see this has been done for other applications:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95797 http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10809
But I wanted to try diagnosing the issue first. Thoughts?
Thanks, Forest