[FFmpeg-user] What is Segmentation fault: 11 ?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2016-08-23 21:11 GMT+02:00 Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net>:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 20:49:20 +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> > What option is most likely to cause this?
>>
>> This is what I would like you to tell us so we can find out if there is a
>> bug that can be fixed within FFmpeg.
>
> And in order to find out, I suggest the following approach:
>
> You built your ffmpeg yourself, you said, right? If you still have the
> build directory (or build the same sources again with the identical
> options), you have a binary ffmpeg_g in that directory after your build
> finished.
>
> Go into the build directory, and launch your ffmpeg command as:
>
> $ gdb --args ./ffmpeg_g -i foo.mp4
>
> Once you get to the gdb prompt, type "r" (or "run") and press return.
> This will run your ffmpeg command within gdb. Hopefully, you get the
> same segmentation fault, but gdb catches it. At that point (after gdb
> says "Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault."), you type
> "thread apply all bt full".
>
> Then post the full output (from the launch of gdb to the end of your
> output) here please.

You are right that this is helpful (and wanted).

It will most likely not answer the question which compilation option
either triggers a bug in FFmpeg or a bug in the compiler though;-(

Carl Eugen