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Skins2 crashes at startup

314  	Couldn't gzopen /home/elduro/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt
315  	got mrl:  554 home/elduro/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt
316  	[00000274] main access error: Connection to  port 554 failed: Connection refused
317  	[00000274] access_realrtsp access error: cannot connect to :554
318  	rtsp: failed to connect to ''
319  	[00000271] main interface error: no suitable access module for `/home/elduro/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt'
320  	[00000271] skins2 interface error: failed to open /home/elduro/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt for reading
321  	[00000271] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /home/elduro/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt
322  	Couldn't gzopen share/skins2/default.vlt
323  	got mrl: share 554 skins2/default.vlt
324  	(no debugging symbols found)
325  	(no debugging symbols found)
326  	[00000276] main access error: cannot resolve share port 554 : Name or service not known
327  	[00000276] access_realrtsp access error: cannot connect to share:554
328  	rtsp: failed to connect to 'share'
329  	[00000271] main interface error: no suitable access module for `share/skins2/default.vlt'
330  	[00000271] skins2 interface error: failed to open share/skins2/default.vlt for reading
331  	[00000271] skins2 interface error: failed to parse share/skins2/default.vlt
332  	[00000271] skins2 interface: skin: VLC 0.8.5 Default Skin  author: aLtgLasS
333  	
334  	Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
335  	[Switching to Thread -1208363344 (LWP 9488)]
336  	0xb7025772 in FT2Font::drawString () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
337  	(gdb) bt
338  	[#0](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/0)  0xb7025772 in FT2Font::drawString () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
339  	[#1](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/1)  0xb70531ba in CtrlText::displayText () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
340  	[#2](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/2)  0xb7054be2 in CtrlText::CtrlText () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
341  	[#3](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/3)  0xb6fd9998 in Builder::addText () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
342  	[#4](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/4)  0xb6fdd0e1 in Builder::build () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
343  	[#5](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/5)  0xb6fab4da in ThemeLoader::parse () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
344  	[#6](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/6)  0xb6facbf6 in ThemeLoader::extract () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
345  	[#7](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/7)  0xb6facedd in ThemeLoader::load () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
346  	[#8](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/8)  0xb6fa6ea1 in Run () from /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libskins2_plugin.so
347  	[#9](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/9)  0x0805c3ab in RunInterface ()
348  	[#10](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/10) 0x0810e6fa in _IO_stdin_used ()
349  	[#11](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/11) 0x083b0f28 in ?? ()
350  	[#12](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/12) 0x00000001 in ?? ()
351  	[#13](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13) 0xbfbbc6bc in ?? ()
352  	[#14](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/14) 0xb4d91bb0 in ?? ()
353  	[#15](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/15) 0x0811468c in _IO_stdin_used ()
354  	[#16](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/16) 0x00000000 in ?? ()
# ls -l /usr/share/vlc/skins2/
002  	total 180
003  	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 125524 Nov  9 14:26 default.vlt
004  	drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov  9 14:31 fonts
005  	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    167 Nov  9 14:26 skin.catalog
006  	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   8887 Nov  9 14:26 skin.dtd
007  	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  31843 Nov  9 14:26 winamp2.xml

Using Yoper

it seems vlc isn't looking in '/usr/share' but in 'share/', but anyway vlc shouldn't segfault

Edited by Rémi Denis-Courmont
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