On Thursday 18 June 2020 15:28:46 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > This is directed mostly to Nik (since I've heard him mention both Devuan > > and VLC); but also to anybody else who might have some inkling what is > > causing this issue. > > > > VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines or > > devices. I use it on my smartphone, and don't need anything else to play > > music, movies, stream videos or radio. (I've tried other media players, > > yes, but they are all inadequate by comparison, at least for my own > > needs.) So many good things to say about VLC ... until about a year or > > two ago. > > > > Ever since Jessie it will start up, but then immediately crashes. I've > > gone through looking for conflicts, but nothing obvious jumps out at me. > > > > Any suggestions about where to look, or what might be causing such an > > issue? > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi Bill > > the only thing I can think of is, purge all settings, config, cache etc. > and try again from the command line. See what it pops out. > > If you are up to it, grab the source code and build it. If you get it > working like that, that means the deb package is likely faulty somehow. > > Kate > Hi Kate! Yes, I do hate building from source, but I can do it; it's just that there is no single "right" way to do it, so I waste a lot of time futzing with it. Since I haven't found too much online about similar problems, I would guess that the problem lies not with the deb packages themselves, or it would have been hunted down by now; but I could be wrong. Regarding a purge of settings: Do you mean using "apt-get purge" or "dpkg --purge"? or do you mean some kind of manual search? My hunch is that the fault may be there, even though I haven't changed anything (not even my socks) since about 2006 or so. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
