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

Rémi Denis-Courmont rem at videolan.org
Sun Mar 15 18:01:09 CET 2009


Le dimanche 15 mars 2009 18:26:38 Rémi Denis-Courmont, vous avez écrit :
> 	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.

By the way, the upstream bug is there:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571409

But evidently, they don't want to fix it. The proposed soluion is basically to 
not release the libxml context. That will trade a crash for memory leaks.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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