[Harri]

Kodi dies sometimes with a general protection fault in JobWorker:
~~~
# grep -i 'general protection fault' /var/log/kern.log
Aug  9 20:31:54 porky kernel: [ 7856.794835] traps: JobWorker[19528] general protection fault ip:7f46596a77bf sp:7f462affbe10 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f4659646000+14b000]
Aug  9 20:32:28 porky kernel: [ 7890.841367] traps: JobWorker[20072] general protection fault ip:7f7f23a557bf sp:7f7ee9427c20 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f7f239f4000+14b000]
Aug  9 20:40:28 porky kernel: [ 8370.899252] traps: JobWorker[21789] general protection fault ip:7f8e6fca57bf sp:7f8e3567be10 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f8e6fc44000+14b000]
Aug  9 20:44:36 porky kernel: [ 8618.266385] traps: JobWorker[23146] general protection fault ip:7f5c240de7bf sp:7f5beaab1c20 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f5c2407d000+14b000]
Aug  9 21:04:52 porky kernel: [ 9835.288236] traps: JobWorker[27580] general protection fault ip:7f4978f097bf sp:7f493b8dae90 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f4978ea8000+14b000]
Aug  9 21:08:03 porky kernel: [10025.883417] traps: JobWorker[28950] general protection fault ip:7f35758657bf sp:7f353bffcc50 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f3575804000+14b000]
Aug 12 17:09:04 porky kernel: [  153.176952] traps: JobWorker[1144] general protection fault ip:7f2a6deca6bf sp:7f2a3f7fcf10 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f2a6de69000+14b000]
~~~
Apparently this seems to happen if I open a local directory in kodi with a lot of videos that are not in my library yet. Kodi scans the files and dies after a few seconds. Quite reproducible.
Only Kodi seems to be affected. Other tools are fine. 

Platform is Debian Sid, kodi is version 18.8, libc6 is 2.31-3. CPU is i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz.

Can anybody reproduce this? Seen something similar?

[black_eagle]

Did you build Kodi from source ?  We don't support the version in the Debian repo as they patch it and the team have no control over that.

[Harri]

Did you build Kodi from source ?  We don't support the version in the Debian repo as they patch it and the team have no control over that.

I understand this, of course, but I wonder how many forum members truly build kodi and its dependencies upon other packages on their own?

[asavah]

I wonder how many forum members truly build kodi and its dependencies upon other packages on their own?

I can certainly tell that not many forum members use eternally unstable debian sid.
You know why sid is called "sid", don't you?
Most people use ubuntu + team kodi ppa which provides Kodi built the way it is supposed to be built.
Sadly debian users with butchered Kodi package are on their own, due to lack of manpower the team can't support every distro out there.
For now the only way to have proper Kodi on debian is to build it from sources.