Latest version crashes on --check-hw etc

[norbusan]

Hi

I am packaging nvencc for Arch, and the latest version 9.32 (maybe a few of the previous ones, too) is crashing on my system:

backtrace

       Message: Process 173253 (nvencc) of user 1000 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 173253:
                #0  0x00007f7199e9a17c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9a17c)
                #1  0x00007f7199e3e5d0 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e5d0)
                #2  0x00007f7199e25685 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25685)
                #3  0x000055fad7690ccc n/a (nvencc + 0x148ccc)
                #4  0x000055fad8200dc9 g_assertion_message_expr (nvencc + 0xcb8dc9)
                #5  0x00007f7199c837f0 g_type_register_static (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3e7f0)
                #6  0x00007f7199c83bf5 g_type_plugin_get_type (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3ebf5)
                #7  0x00007f7199c525f9 n/a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0xd5f9)
                #8  0x00007f71a3db81ef n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x61ef)
                #9  0x00007f71a3db82cd n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x62cd)
                #10 0x00007f71a3dd38c0 n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x218c0)
                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Output on console:

$ nvencc --check-hw

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed

(process:174427): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:28:21.622: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed
**
GLib-GObject:ERROR:../glib/gobject/gtype.c:2555:g_type_register_static: assertion failed: (static_quark_type_flags)
Bail out! GLib-GObject:ERROR:../glib/gobject/gtype.c:2555:g_type_register_static: assertion failed: (static_quark_type_flags)
Aborted                    (core dumped) nvencc --check-hw

Compilation is with

    meson setup ./build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Denable_vapoursynth=false
    ninja -C build

nvidia-smi output

$ nvidia-smi 
Mon Aug 17 21:30:41 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 610.57.04              KMD Version: 610.57.04     CUDA UMD Version: 13.3     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Gene...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| N/A   47C    P4             21W /   55W |      44MiB /  12282MiB |      4%      Default |
....

Any ideas?

Best regards

Norbert

[rigaya]

NVEnc 9.32 changed libass static link in Linux build by default, which might be causing the issue.

Adding ‘-Dlibass_static=false’ might help.

[norbusan]

Great, that worked. Thanks a lot! Greatly appreciated.