Re: [trinity-users] VLC crashes - chronic problem since Jessie

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:44 PM, William Morder via trinity-users <trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> 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 Try: login as a new user, make sure member of the "video" group. Or backup then remove the vlc config dir. "apt purge vlc" works also..less typing 'dpkg" removes one package, has to have the .deb file extension. greg