Xubuntu 14.04 64 bit. I used VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876). I also tried the daily builds, 2.2.0.
VLC crashes. I opened a bug report at VLC's bug tracker, they asked for backtrace
#0 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
#1 0x00007fffe884d7a0 in mkdirhier () from /usr/lib/libtar.so.0
#2 0x00007fffe884c19d in tar_extract_dir () from /usr/lib/libtar.so.0
#3 0x00007fffe884c3fb in tar_extract_file () from /usr/lib/libtar.so.0
#4 0x00007fffe884dc32 in tar_extract_all () from /usr/lib/libtar.so.0
#5 0x00007fffe8ab5bfb in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
#6 0x00007fffe8ab6c48 in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
#7 0x00007fffe8ab73cb in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
#8 0x00007fffe8ab2854 in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
#9 0x00007ffff79a8182 in start_thread (arg=0x7fffeb2d7700)
at pthread_create.c:312
#10 0x00007ffff74d130d in clone ()
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111
(gdb)
I also gave them this file, they closed my ticket and labelled it incomplete
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I just want to know if it's a bug or not. If it's a bug, I'll reopen the ticket, I will delete this question. If it's not a bug, then how to fix it? Everything was working fine on 13.10.
UPDATE
I'm not interested in fixing this bug anymore. Mplayer with Umplayer offer me many more features than VLC. I'll accept the only answer and vote it up just to close this post, although I haven't tried it. I'll leave that question for its value, maybe someone else has the same problem, and maybe he'll find a solution by reading this post.
r
to run the program. (gdb) r When vlc crashes, errors will show up on terminal. Provide the same info to the developers. It might help them.