On Thursday 18 June 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- No apt anything bad human! No soup for you! I mean, go to your user directory ~/foo and look for references to vlc. For example... ~/Bill/.vlc ~/Bill/.local/share/vlc ~/Bill/.config/vlc and rename or delete the content of. I would rename.... ~/Bill/.vlc.old ~/Bill/.local/share/vlc.old ~/Bill/.config/vlc.old and let vlc reload those directories/files with clean ones. Obviously those directories may differ depending on distro and version etc. You can also try creating a new blank user, login as such and try vlc from there. If it launches then it's definitely a config/settings file problem. Also try to start vlc as root. It could be a perms problem, though I doubt it. good luck, Kate --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
