Temporary SMPlayer crashed after clicking Titlebar to move the Window

Im using KDE and Manjaro newest Stable and there was 2-4 Packages yesterday only 2mb size if i remember right, i downloaded something like libpacmanager or so, my system was up to date and always stable. Since i updated 3 days ago the newest stable i experience some strange KDE desktop bugs also but i had no problem with Smplayer, i also never experienced a crash with Smplayer since im using Manjaro 16 month and daily use with SMPlayer, but after the small update the smplayer crashed again and again… when im using VLC Player and starting Smplayer its run stable for a while… Thats really strange behavior.

But yesterday and today this application crashed atleast 8 times and restarting PC/Linux don’t help either.

Here is my journal:

Mar 04 23:07:51 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[1588]: [🡕] Process 1525 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                     
                                                     Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e>
                                                     Stack trace of thread 1525:
                                                     #0  0x00007f82cdd9c48d n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                     ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 1525 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ Process 1525 (smplayer) crashed and dumped core.
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
â–‘â–‘ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
Mar 04 23:17:03 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[2516]: [🡕] Process 2509 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                     
                                                     Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e>
                                                     Stack trace of thread 2509:
                                                     #0  0x00007f70e974e942 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                     ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 2509 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
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Mar 04 23:07:51 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[1588]: [🡕] Process 1525 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                     
                                                     Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e6edcc818
                                                     Stack trace of thread 1525:
                                                     #0  0x00007f82cdd9c48d n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                     ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 1525 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ Process 1525 (smplayer) crashed and dumped core.
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
â–‘â–‘ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
Mar 04 23:17:03 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[2516]: [🡕] Process 2509 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                     
                                                     Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e6edcc818
                                                     Stack trace of thread 2509:
                                                     #0  0x00007f70e974e942 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                     ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 2509 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ Process 2509 (smplayer) crashed and dumped core.
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
â–‘â–‘ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
Mar 05 03:30:31 koboldx-z170 sudo[45274]:  koboldx : a password is required ; PWD=/home/koboldx ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/uptime
Mar 05 04:29:02 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[61655]: [🡕] Process 19842 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                      
                                                      Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e6edcc818
                                                      Stack trace of thread 19842:
                                                      #0  0x00007fbd98ae748d n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 19842 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ Process 19842 (smplayer) crashed and dumped core.
â–‘â–‘ 
â–‘â–‘ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
â–‘â–‘ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
Mar 05 04:29:55 koboldx-z170 systemd-coredump[61896]: [🡕] Process 61819 (smplayer) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                      
                                                      Module /usr/bin/smplayer with build-id aa531664ed478d9da2df96057e9f1d2e6edcc818
                                                      Stack trace of thread 61819:
                                                      #0  0x00007f91cb25d942 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 61819 (smplayer) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.25-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=a44dd3c4-f5f1-4587-8934-6f7413d28d4f
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z170X-UD3 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z170X-UD3-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F23d date: 12/01/2017
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.58 GiB used: 5.67 GiB (36.4%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
    family: 6 model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xEC
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4500 high: 4501 min/max: 800/4700 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 4501 2: 4499 3: 4500
    4: 4500 5: 4500 6: 4500 7: 4500 8: 4500 bogomips: 64026
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
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    invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
    nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
    pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
    smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow
    tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
    xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 510.54 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e07 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 122 s-size: 533x302mm (21.0x11.9")
    s-diag: 613mm (24.1")
  Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 123 size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7")
    diag: 604mm (23.8")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.54 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f7 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.25-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.47 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.57 TiB used: 54.74 GiB (1.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B7QCXE7 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 1TB
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HDN724030ALE640
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    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A5E0 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Samsung
    model: Portable SSD T5 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 88.61 GiB size: 86.72 GiB (97.87%) used: 26.49 GiB (30.5%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
    uuid: eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 200 MiB size: 189.7 MiB (94.84%)
    used: 105.7 MiB (55.7%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: N/A
    uuid: 26eda82e-b403-49b8-abca-202167417020
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 332.03 GiB size: 325.82 GiB (98.13%)
    used: 10.86 GiB (3.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc4 maj-min: 8:36 label: N/A
    uuid: ada4a6a2-bd0a-4652-b386-7c637bba7ee9
  ID-4: /media/temp raw-size: 63.48 GiB size: 62.18 GiB (97.96%)
    used: 17.26 GiB (27.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: temp
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Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.93 GiB used: 21.2 MiB (0.7%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
    uuid: a44dd3c4-f5f1-4587-8934-6f7413d28d4f
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 442.47 GiB fs: ntfs label: ssm
    uuid: AE7EDC0696B158FD
  ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 50 MiB fs: ntfs
    label: System-reserviert uuid: B2286A122869D5BF
  ID-3: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 293.16 GiB fs: ntfs label: win10
    uuid: 5E60C09860C077F3
  ID-4: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 515 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: 20E8D914E8D8E954
  ID-5: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 585.94 GiB fs: ntfs label: games
    uuid: 165692E31D7ADAF2
  ID-6: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 1.57 TiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-7: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 1.09 TiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-13:2 info: A4Tech XL-730K / XL-750BK XL-755BK Mice
    type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 09da:9090 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-5:2 info: Samsung Portable SSD T5 type: Mass Storage
    driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
    chip-ID: 04e8:61f5 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 36 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Info:
  Processes: 247 Uptime: 20h 56m wakeups: 6 Init: systemd v: 250
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1371
  pacman: 1365 lib: 407 flatpak: 6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
  inxi: 3.3.13

I can not reproduce this issue.

Which multimedia engine is used by the SMPlayer? I know it use mpv or mplayer.
What is the output driver in the “Preferences” → “General” → “Video”?

Do you have the SMPlayer log?
(The SMPlayer has its own log file in ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer_log.txt . If not, you have to enable “Save SMPlayer log to file” in the “preferences” → “Advanced” → “Logs”.)
Or you run smplayer in the console. You will see the error log after SMPlayer crashing.

Sorry for the late answer, im using MPV Engine.

I had logging deactivated, but im reactivating it right now… i got several crashes again, i will report back soon when i have a crash…
but right now it runs stable, this is really temporary… i have no clue why it crashes sometimes and why not.

This log file does not show error.

Can you answer this question:

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Preferences” → “General” → “Video” → “Output driver: DEFAULT

how do i run smplayer in the console?

Edit: I just found out, i just typed smplayer in terminal xD

Try to change Default to vdpau if you are using NVIDIA GPU.

  1. Open the terminal e.g. konsole or yakuake
  2. Enter a command smplayer in this terminal.
  3. It will open SMPLayer to show messages
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Now it won’t crash again and i don’t changed anything besides activating logs… i report later back too you… i need to go afk.

Im using nvidia GPU and I will change to vdpau after it crashed again.

Its crashed but not much information there:

[koboldx@koboldx-z170 ~]$ smplayer
This is SMPlayer v. 21.10.0 (revision 10000) running on Linux
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Im also experience the same instability issue with vdpau. :disappointed_relieved:

It chould be that KDE crashes SMPlayer. I do not know what you did wrong in the KDE profile or system.
Try creating a new profile in KDE (using the default theme) and check SMPlayer if there is no issue.

I only updated the KDE stable version from 27.03 and downloaded another small lib packages 2 days after… and it crashed out of nowhere, without any other changes.

I could use smplayer the full day yesterday, openend it 2 times (at the same time) and never closed it… for 10 hours i was watching alot videos, no problem at all. Then i just closed both windows and openend it again and put a video file per drag und drop and… it crashed!!!

Im experience many strange KDE bugs on other program’s, when im using openvpn and minimize into taskbar and i want to open taskbar menu few sec later, the openvpn menue pops up, but the minized icon is in the oposite corner and this menue should only come on with right click on openvpn… but i did left click and no where close to openvpn icon.

Im experience the worst Manjaro/KDE Stable update since im using Manjaro KDE (since 16month ago).

Im really don’t want to create a new profile, i did alot customizations on my Desktop and it was alot work… im pretty sure it will take atleast 10hours to reconfig everything.

Maybe i should use Timeshift and rollback to the latest snapshot (10 days ago) and patch again? Problem is the newest firefox update just showed up, also with alot new bugs and i wanted to evade it.

I just saw that the newest Firefox version can’t play Videos with hardware acceleration… there is really alot buggy releases going on this 2 weeks :cold_face:

You can set up new Manjaro KDE with btrfs snapshots in VM and then compare it with your KDE system, which problem will be detected. This might be easy for you.

I never used a VM befor and i have no unused drive for a btrfs partition available.

This sounds like alot to work to get it running, not everyone is playing with VM’s.

Are you using your SMPlayer on Manjaro KDE? Is this may the reason why you can’t reproduce it?

Which “style” are you using under Preferences → Interface → Style


EDIT: Ah nuts. SMPlayer is randomly crashing for me too, under KDE. Fresh SMPlayer installation, fresh config profile.

It seems more likely to occur when clicking on menu/interface buttons or even changing the Style and clicking Apply. It’s like a random roll of the dice each time. Sometimes I’ll be lucky for a long time, and sometimes it’ll just crash.

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Yes

  • I tried to move the window of SMPlayer playing video into my other monitor, nothing happened.
  • Resized the window, nothing happened.
  • Drap&Drop other video file into SMPlayer, nothing happened.

But my setting of SMPlayer is custom a long time ago .

  • Disabled “Main toolbar” in the “Options” → “Toolbars”
  • Preferences → General → General → Multimedia engine /usr/local/bin/mpv that I created.
#!/usr/bin/env bash 

unset LD_PRELOAD # Ignore custom LD_PRELOPAD that can break mpv by Vivaldi.
/usr/bin/mpv "$@"


  • Interface → GUI: “Basic GUI”, Icon set: “Classic”, Style: “Breeze”
  • No optional dependence e.g. smplayer-themes , smplayer-skins
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Im using Fusion.

Finally im not alone… this is exactly what SMPlayer did too me. A Roll of dice crash… sometimes its just works and sometimes i have several crashes in a row.

Play a video and click on the Titlebar and move the window… The chance is good for a crash.

I will change style to breeze like you… i hope its related with fusion.

Im using this settings since 16month and never changed anything.

GUI: Skinnable GUI
Skin: Modern
Style:Fusion

Adjusted

Im using the default: /usr/bin/mpv

why do you using a “Local” Folder?

I have no clue what that command good for… could you explain it for what reason are you using that?

Everything adjust… besides Smplayer-skins is installed, but i have no clue if i have optional depencies.

I still archive crashes after adjusting everything compared to your settings.

It is not important if you do not use Vivaldi to open SMPlayer.

Pacman can check if you installed the optional dependencies:

pacman -Qi smplayer-skins smplayer-themes

I do not use these dependencies.

The last Stable Update fixed my issue. The player is no longer crashing.