[gst-devel] Re: mandrake packages of gst - backtrace of crash (fwd)

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hey guys,

here's a backtrace from the mdk packager.

Looks like the g_mem_chunk_alloc gets a bad pointer there.  Anyone have an 
idea what is goin wrong there ?

Thomas

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:36:47 +0200
From: Götz Waschk <waschk at informatik.uni-rostock.de>
To: Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at apestaart.org>
Subject: Re: mandrake packages of gst - backtrace of crash

Am Samstag, 21. September 2002, 18:26:29 Uhr MET, schrieb Thomas Vander Stichele:
> Second, try running this simple pipeline from gdb.  See what causes the 
> segfault.  If you provide me with a bt I can tell you more, probably.

Hi,

I've rebuild the gstreamer package with binary stripping disabled,
here's the better backtrace:
[goetz at abgrund goetz]$ gdb gst-launch
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This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run fakesrc ! fakesink
Starting program: /usr/bin/gst-launch fakesrc ! fakesink
#INFO (13230: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.4.0.2 
INFO (13230: 0) CPU features: (0c040841) MMX 
registry: loaded user_registry in 0.000536 seconds
          (/home/goetz/.gstreamer/registry.xml)
registry: loaded global_registry in 0.055831 seconds
          (/usr/etc/gstreamer/registry.xml)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live buffer(s)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live bufferpool(s)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
RUNNING pipeline

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x4004cf84 in gst_mem_chunk_alloc0 (mem_chunk=0x1) at gstmemchunk.c:143
#2  0x4003ce52 in gst_buffer_new () at gstbuffer.c:170
#3  0x40380a2b in gst_fakesrc_create_buffer (src=0x8073cc0) at gstfakesrc.c:673
#4  0x40380c52 in gst_fakesrc_get (pad=0x8079098) at gstfakesrc.c:756
#5  0x4001b1d4 in gst_basic_scheduler_src_wrapper (argc=64, argv=0x8073cc0)
    at gstbasicscheduler.c:386
#6  0x4001d080 in cothread_stub () at cothreads.c:433
#7  0x4001c7fb in cothread_switch (thread=0xbfe00000) at cothreads.c:639
#8  0x4001b8a8 in gst_basic_scheduler_gethandler_proxy (pad=0x8079098)
    at gstbasicscheduler.c:502
#9  0x400544a5 in gst_pad_pull (pad=0x8079114) at gstpad.c:2129
#10 0x4001acef in gst_basic_scheduler_chain_wrapper (argc=64, argv=0x807a3a8)
    at gstbasicscheduler.c:329
#11 0x4001d080 in cothread_stub () at cothreads.c:433
#12 0x4001c7fb in cothread_switch (thread=0xbfe20000) at cothreads.c:639
#13 0x40017a6e in gst_basic_scheduler_iterate (sched=0x8073668)
    at gstbasicscheduler.c:1362
#14 0x400640b1 in gst_scheduler_iterate (sched=0x8073668) at gstscheduler.c:41
#15 0x4003c3b3 in gst_bin_iterate_func (bin=0x80730b0) at gstbin.c:776
#16 0x4003bccd in gst_bin_iterate (bin=0x8073668) at gstbin.c:819
#17 0x080493a5 in idle_func (data=0x40) at gst-launch.c:23
#18 0x401ff863 in g_idle_remove_by_data () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x401ffb35 in g_idle_remove_by_data () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x4020039d in g_idle_remove_by_data () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x401fc27f in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0x40035c0d in gst_main () at gst.c:589
#23 0x08049260 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbffff2d4) at gst-launch.c:176

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