For the last week or so, I've been using Mint's Movie Player because VLC Media Player crashes constantly.
I'm using Mint 12 (32-bit) and VLC 1.1.12. I've tried playing *.iso's, *.avi's, and *.mkv's. VLC always crashes immediately.
Any suggestions for diagnosing the problem? I suspect some recent update broke VLC - it was working fine for months beforehand - but I don't know where to start looking.
VLC crashes every time it's used [Solved]
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VLC crashes every time it's used [Solved]
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Re: VLC crashes every time it's used
the easiest way to start diagnosing the proble (tho this doesn't mean that we can find a cure) is type vlc into the terminal, use it until it crashes, save the error msgs you have in the terminal and pastebin them here
http://pastebin.com/
http://pastebin.com/
Re: VLC crashes every time it's used
I tried that this morning. Looks like I'm getting some kind of segmentation fault as soon as I try to play something.
I'll paste from the command line later, when I'm sitting at the Mint machine.
like now.
I'll paste from the command line later, when I'm sitting at the Mint machine.
like now.
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objekt@Gateway ~ $ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Warning: call to srand(1336486852)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x9a1392c] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
(process:13144): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
"sni-qt/13144" WARN 08:20:53.464 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
Segmentation fault
Re: VLC crashes every time it's used
Ok try this:
This will add unoficiall repository and upgrade your VLC and some libs to new version.
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sudo -i
add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Re: VLC crashes every time it's used
Thanks, that did the trick. The new version doesn't crash.
Re: VLC crashes every time it's used [Solved]
Hi,
I'm having the same problem with Mint 12 KDE. VLC crashing on any vidoe file with a segmentation fault.
I followed the above instruction, but apt-dist-upgrade didnt upgrade anything.
Is there a new repository or something?
I'm having the same problem with Mint 12 KDE. VLC crashing on any vidoe file with a segmentation fault.
I followed the above instruction, but apt-dist-upgrade didnt upgrade anything.
Is there a new repository or something?