[vlc-devel] Segfault when activating 'shoutcast radio' service discovery

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hello,

Le mercredi 11 mars 2009 13:01:07 Dominique Leuenberger, vous avez écrit :
> It goes a while and then segfaults.

It turns out this is caused by a conflict between Qt4 and VLC that causes 
libxml2 version 2.7 to crash.

As far as I can currently tell, this fundamentally is a limitation of the 
libxml2 initialization API. Namely, it is not re-entrant and crashes if it is 
initialized from more than one place. VLC is using through its xml plugin. 
Qt4 is also using it. Other underlying libraries might be using it too.

Downgrading to 2.6 will work around the bug in practice. If this is against 
your distribution policy, you are screwed.

As an alternative, you will need to disable all but one of the VLC plugin 
depending on GNOME-XML: libass, qt4, freetype and xml. Unfortuantely, qt4 and 
freetype are both quite essential, so this hardly is an option.

N.B.: Thanks to J-B for hinting at libqt4-xml.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont