*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 *** - india - Fedora mailing-lists

15 Sep 2010


      Hi ,
I recently installed vlc for my fedora 13 from rpmfusion repository . I get the following error and vlc does not start at all,
[arun@localhost ~]$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(-0xff37d01f)[0x282fe1]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x22)[0x47e9632]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE4_Rep10_M_destroyERKS1_+0x1e)[0x47e04be]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE7reserveEj+0x9a)[0x47e1cba]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE6appendEjw+0x76)[0x47e1dd6]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE6resizeEjw+0x7d)[0x47e336d]
/usr/lib/libtag.so.1(_ZN6TagLib6StringC2EPKcNS0_4TypeE+0xc2)[0x10f6762]
/usr/lib/libtag.so.1(+0x2b4f7)[0x10d54f7]
/usr/lib/libtag.so.1(+0x6d71d)[0x111771d]
/usr/lib/libtag.so.1(+0x23c7c)[0x10cdc7c]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xc00da0]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xc0517f]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xc00966]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xc049c6]
/lib/libdl.so.2[0xdbfc3b]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xc00966]
/lib/libdl.so.2[0xdc003c]
/lib/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x41)[0xdbfb71]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4[0x19a429]
======= Memory map: ========
00101000-001f2000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 152826     /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4.0.0
001f2000-001f8000 rw-p 000f0000 08:05 152826     /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4.0.0
001f8000-001f9000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 396219     /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_filter/libyuvp_plugin.so
001f9000-001fa000 rw-p 00001000 08:05 396219     /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_filter/libyuvp_plugin.so
001fa000-00213000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 147714     /usr/lib/libvlc.so.5.1.0
00213000-00214000 rw-p 00018000 08:05 147714     /usr/lib/libvlc.so.5.1.0
00214000-00399000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 521460     /lib/libc-2.12.so
00399000-0039a000 ---p 00185000 08:05 521460     /lib/libc-2.12.so
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171341     /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.0
00858000-0085a000 rw-p 00047000 08:05 171341     /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.0Aborted (core dumped)
[arun@localhost ~]$
I also tried
[arun@localhost ~]$ MALLOC_CHECK_=1 vlc
VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
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*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x04821ff0 ***
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x286b0c4, 0x286b038)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to srand(1283889561)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
(process:2716): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
[arun@localhost ~]$
Though vlc works fine . I had to use this command everytime , I need vlc .
Also I could not access vlc from my Applications menu .
Can anyone please help me .
Thanks in advance,
Arun Prakash