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Tue, 05/31/2011 - 22:01
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Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Kdenlive crashes when installing from:
#dpkg -l | grep kdenlive
ii kdenlive 0.8.0-0ubuntu0~sunab~lucid1 a non-linear video editor
ii kdenlive-data 0.8.0-0ubuntu0~sunab~lucid1 a non-linear video editor (data files)

With output:
project monitor connected
clip monitor connected
Cannot get capabilities.KCrash: Application 'kdenlive' crashing...

More info...

A backtrace gives:
Starting program: /usr/bin/kdenlive --nocrashhandler
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
project monitor connected
clip monitor connected
Cannot get capabilities.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x002e0b20 in QString::fromLatin1_helper(char const*, int) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0 0x002e0b20 in QString::fromLatin1_helper(char const*, int) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#1 0x002e68f4 in QString::fromAscii_helper(char const*, int) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#2 0x083b95a9 in ?? ()
#3 0x082f131f in ?? ()
#4 0x082f29dd in ?? ()
#5 0x0809eaa1 in _start ()

A "bad" workaround:
Remove /dev/video0 and /dev/video1. Then kdenlive does not crash anymore, but bad because it disables all my v4l devices.

Further information:
#cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"

My thoughts:
I suspect my system has no (full) support for v4l2. The ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP is missing. kdenlive cannot handle that.

Looking forward to version 0.8.1 ;-)

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Tue, 05/31/2011 - 22:57
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Hi!

Thanks for the detailled post, your analysis seems correct. I just made a few changes that should help fixing this issue in current svn.

regards

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Mon, 06/06/2011 - 14:45
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

@milux:

Do you think you could try the current development version to confirm that the startup crash is fixed?

You can install easily with sunab's ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn

Let me know if you find time for it, so that we can prepare a bugfix release.

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Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:35
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Hi!

I installed version: 0.8.1+svn20110606.r5673-0ubuntu0~sunab~lucid1.

It doesn't crash, but I cannot continue because of the following error (shown in the kdenlive config wizard welcome screen):

Fatal Error
MLT's SDL module not found. Please check your MLT install. Kdenlive will not work until this issue is fixed.

Maybe the debian package is missing a dependency rule?

Ps. I have libmlt4 installed:
#dpkg -l | grep libmlt4
ii libmlt4 0.7.3+git20110606.7a394eef-0ubuntu0~sunab~lucid1 multimedia framework (runtime)

Thanks,

Milux.

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Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:30
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Oh, yes I see the same problem on a test system... Investigating the issue.

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Tue, 06/07/2011 - 22:02
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Ok, in fact the way Kdenlive checked for MLT's installation was rather ugly and broken by a recent MLT commit. I just rewrote it to correctly identify installed modules.

So you will have to wait a few days for sunab's packages to rebuild (I don't know how frequent is the update & rebuild process). As a temporary workaround to start Kdenlive, you could try to edit the file:

$HOME/.kde/share/config/kdenliverc

And look for this:

[version]
version=0.8

Change it to:

[version]
version=0.8.1

and Kdenlive should start without complaining.

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Wed, 06/08/2011 - 19:49
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Ok, sunab's experimental repository was just updated to the latest Kdenlive svn version, so you can update and try again, thanks

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Wed, 06/08/2011 - 22:28
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

Hello,

I checked, and can confirm that kdenlive does not crash anymore. Thanks!

My webcam is not detected, but I guess, as I said before, that's due to old v4l drivers in kubuntu. I do not use my webcam, so I do not really care. I can provide you with more info if you're interested.

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Thu, 06/16/2011 - 19:38
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Re: Crash on startup: Cannot get capabilities.

I now run version 0.8.1+svn20110615.r5716-0ubuntu0~sunab~lucid1

I'm having trouble saving files. Kdenlive seems to hang on the "save" button.

The terminal gives (every second or so) the following output:

"kdenlive(6153): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-michel/kpc/kdenlive-thumbs.lock" , last result = 1"

Edit: more info in http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2174

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