20 Jun
2020
20 Jun
'20
3:05 a.m.
On Friday 19 June 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Friday 19 June 2020 11:17:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
wrote:
I sometimes
have strange problems when I try to reuse a user dir in new builds
(ghosts in the machine).
When I do is start with clean user and copy over, bit by bit, the config files
I need for important stuff like konqueror. Everything else I can just
readjust as I go along.
Seems to work well.
Good luck human.
Kate
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Anno domini 2020 Fri, 19 Jun 11:03:09 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
Sorry for the delay in responding. Sometimes I get tired of fighting
against the machine.
;-)
Well, so I got it going again, at least operable. I am a hoarder, and in
one of my hoards I found some old configuration files for VLC that preserve
my settings. I still have some problems playing anything directly from a
saved iso, as well as some vobs and mpegs. I checked this with an iso that
I created myself (so nothing weird to interfere with playback), and I still
have problems with some of them. This doesn't seem right.
I did find out something interesting, though. I have purged everything
KDE4/5, as well as any traces of MATE or LXDE or whatever else, and even
after purging I still keep finding KDE4/5 krap. It is like being in an
abusive relationship. My old desktop doesn't want to let me go, and keeps
trying to control me even after I have emotionally moved on to a better
desktop.
After getting rid of any lingering KDE4/5 files, I suddenly realized that
VLC had been using KDE theme settings, rather than my TDE settings. (When I
first installed Debian, I used a DVD that had made KDE5 one of the default
choices, so I had to configure KDE Plasma before I could get TDE to work.
Now I have got rid of KDE, but it seems not quite.)
So I want to believe that I have it almost rebuilt as I like, but we'll
see. At the moment, no errors messages to report, but it's still not
running quite right.
Whenever I can do a fresh installation on a new SSD, I will try to build a
new machine as GNU/Linux Devuan with TDE from the bottom up.
Bill
--------------------------------------------------------------------- On Friday 19 June 2020 10:21:32 Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
Can you start vlc from commandline and post the error message - if any?
Anno domini 2020 Thu, 18 Jun 15:19:49 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
> 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
Sorry, I think I missed that message. If you have not solved it in
the meantime: delete "~/.config/vlc/" and "~/.local/share/vlc"
Nik
Hi Nik!
No problem, as others jumped their suggestions. However I did miss the
entry in "~/.local/share/vlc", so that helps me, too. And I did believe
that I had resolved the issue, until I tried to play another film; when
I tried to load the next item, however, I got the same problems all
over again.
I am still fiddling with it, looking for old configurations that used
to work, to see if I can somehow adapt the settings, but it seems that
VLC has changed something, and whatever has changed now interferes with
its operation.
In particular, I notice that I am asked for explicit permission for
network access. But I don't stream videos from online sources; I only
play local files, and have no need of Internet while I am watching; so
that seems unnecessary. I don't remember being asked for such
permissions before, but maybe I used my own settings to evade the
problem until now?
Anyway, at present I must delete VLC folders, etc., then start over for
every time I want to play a film. At least I made some progress: I can
use VLC (a little), whereas before yesterday, for a year or more past,
I could not use it at all. Does anybody else remember the promise, that
computers would make our
lives easier, and give us more free time?
Yes. And the paperfree office. And then they published UT99 :)
Nik