Restarting the pipeline leads to seg fault

Accelerated Computing Intelligent Video Analytics DeepStream SDK
#1

• Hardware Platform (Jetson / GPU) - Jetson nano
• DeepStream Version 5.0
• JetPack Version (valid for Jetson only) 4.4
• TensorRT Version 7.1
• Issue Type( questions, new requirements, bugs) bug

I was playing around with the source code of deepstream reference app which comes with deepstream sdk.
I am using live rtsp sources as input. The app works fine for the initial run.

So as given in the source code -
when the app encounters an error it goes to done and performs the required cleanup.

done:
	g_print ("Quitting\n");
    g_source_remove(event_source_id);
    g_source_remove(timeout_source);
	for (i = 0; i < num_instances; i++) {
	if (appCtx[i]->return_value == -1)
	  return_value = -1;
	int return_after_destroy = destroy_pipeline (appCtx[i]);

	g_mutex_lock (&disp_lock);
	if (windows[i])
	  XDestroyWindow (display, windows[i]);
	windows[i] = 0;
	g_mutex_unlock (&disp_lock);

	g_free (appCtx[i]);
	}

	g_mutex_lock (&disp_lock);
	if (display)
	XCloseDisplay (display);
	display = NULL;
	g_mutex_unlock (&disp_lock);
	g_mutex_clear (&disp_lock);

	if (main_loop) {
	g_main_loop_unref (main_loop);
	}

	if (ctx) {
	g_option_context_free (ctx);
	}

	if (return_value == 0) {
	g_print ("App run successful\n");
	} else {
	g_print ("App run failed\n");
	}

I wish to have a restart function in the app so that when it crashes it again restarts the process after sometime. In order to do that, I wrote a wrapper main function and changed the original function to some other function.

// updated main
int main(int argc, char* argv)
{
   some_other_function(argc, argv);// original main
}

and now am calling some other function again whenever the app goes to the done state. The app runs fine for the first time , but when I am recalling the function for the second time, I get the seg fault just before the main loop is about to be started. How to solve this ?

#3

To simulate a similar behaviour, replace the deepstream_app_main.c file with the attached file in sources/apps/sample-apps/deepstream-app/ directory and rebuild the binary.

What’s the workaround for this ?deepstream_app_main.c (23.2 KB)

#4

I am facing the same issue with the latest deepstream sdk.

#5

please check https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Commandline-option-parser.html#g-option-context-parse

g_option_context_parse ()

Parses the command line arguments, recognizing options which have been added to context . A side-effect of calling this function is that g_set_prgname() will be called.

If the parsing is successful, any parsed arguments are removed from the array and argc and argv are updated accordingly. A ‘–’ option is stripped from argv unless there are unparsed options before and after it, or some of the options after it start with ‘-’. In case of an error, argc and argv are left unmodified.

#6

HI mchi,
Thanks for the quick reply. I made a couple of changes
a) I resetted the argc, argv with values before each restart.
b) I restted the camera_id_list array with NULL before each restart in parse_source function in deepstream_config_parser.c
c) Now, the app doesn’t go into seg fault, but memory leak is still happening and sources etc are not being closed properly. I didnt observed this behaviour in deepstream4.0

#9

Any resolution?

#10

There is no update from you for a period, assuming this is not an issue any more.
Hence we are closing this topic. If need further support, please open a new one.
Thanks

Can you provide the updated code and the detailed repo steps?
We do have so many topics to answer, it’s hard to us to spend much time to research the repo steps.

Thanks!