Cinelerra-cv freezes on launch (desktop PC only)

[leo67]

I have a laptop (intel i7 6700K/Nvidia 1060/16 GB RAM) and a desktop (AMD 990FX/AMD 8300FX/Nvidia 1060/16 GB RAM/4 LCD displays) both in triple boot (W10/manjaro/mint) on separate SSD disks and working like a charm. All identical OS on both computers have similar proprietary Nvidia drivers and installed apps.

Each time I tried to launch Cinelerra-CV on either Mint or Manjaro, it freezes when loading the GUI on the desktop (i.e. only the mouse responds in terms of moving accross the screen then, after a few minutes, funny symbols start to fill the screen and I have to do a hard reboot) while it launches normally on the laptop. Cinerella-CV package came from the cinelerra-CV PPA. I have Linux mint 18.1 KDE 64 bit but I use cinnamon 3.2.7 and kernel 4.8.0-58-generic. Plenty of applications installed, including video-editors which I have not fully tried, but nothing has ever crashed so far.

I tried the command line "cinelerra" instead so to get some error messages on mint but all I got was:

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Compilled on Friday Feb 19 19:47:13 UTC 2016
Cinelerra-cv is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for Cinelerra-CV.

On the other hand this is what the "cinelerra" command line gave me on manjaro:

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Cintltrra-CV 2.3 GlT ::58ef118e63bf2fac8c99add372c584e93b008bae
(C) 2006 Heroine Virtual ltd.
(C) 2006-ZOIS The Cinelerra-cv community
External ffmpeg
Compilled on Friday Feb 19 19:47:13 UTC 2016
Cinelerra-cv is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for Cinelerra-CV.
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/pitch.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cintlerra/polar.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/radialblur.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plu1in: /usr/lib/cintlerra/reframe.so : file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/reframer.so : file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cintlerra/reroute.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/resample.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/reverb.so: file too short
PlucinServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/reverseaudio.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/reversevidto.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/rgb601.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/l1b/cinelerra/rotate.so: filt too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/scale.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/shapewipe.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/sharpen.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/shiftinterlace.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/slide.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/spectrogram.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/svg.so: file too short
PluginServer::optn_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/swapchannels.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/synthetizer.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/threshold.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cintlerra/timeavg.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/timefront.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/timestretch.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/titler.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/translate.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/unsharp.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/videoscope.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/wave.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/whirl.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/wipe.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/yuv.so: file too short
PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/zoomblur.so: file too short

As said before the system froze quickly at cinelerra GUI launching stage so I had to take a picture of the screen and did a bit of OCR to get the above output. A few minutes later the screens started to be filed with gibberish characters.
Any idea in terms of debugging/troubleshooting?

[leo67]

I tried the cinelerra-GG version (https://cinelerra-cv.org/download.php)instead of cinelerra-CV and no more issues as far as I can tell. Icing on the cake there are more features and codecs maybe at the expense of stability. We'll see