Hi Edward On 2012-05-02 23:10:28, Edward C. Jones wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.0.1-4 > > I have just installed Debian testing (wheezy) amd64 on May 1, 2012. > > uname -a gives: > > Linux c-76-111-67-198 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Apr 15 16:47:38 UTC 2012 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > vlc hangs at the start of certain video files when the file is played. I > got the output at the end of this file using "vlc -vv". I had to use > kill -9 to get rid of the vlc process. > > My machine does not have any speakers. > > At the advice of the vlc webpage, I deleted > ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc > The hang was the same before and after deleting vlcrc.
I suppose you didn't get Rémi's message: On 2013-02-05 20:54:37, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Unfortunately, that's not a very helpful description and the debug log cannot > really point out why VLC would dead lock. For that kind of bug, we really > need > a symbolic threaded stack trace of the jammed process, as gdb can provide. Could you please test if the bug still exists in recent versions of vlc? If so, please attach a backtrace (install vlc-dbg and follow the instructions from https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace). Thanks Regards -- Sebastian Ramacher
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