[SOLVED] VLC Does not open after accidental upgrade to 3 from 2.2.7

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 05:54 PM

Ok I just installed smplayer and ewww I'm going to vomit WHY IS IT SO UGLYASDLKJFASLKDFJAKSFJ

*deep breath* I'm going to screw around with it for a minute and if I can't make it pretty I definitely don't want this abomination. Whoever designed the default layout has problems.

m.a.l.'s pa · 06-10-2018, 05:55 PM

I think I may have a related issue here. Debian Stretch, in Openbox, but this installation also has KDE Plasma -- I added Openbox later. VLC won't open in Openbox (when I try to start it from the menu), but it runs fine in KDE. If I try to run it in Openbox from the command line, the error messages go by too fast for me to see what's at the beginning, but the last few lines look like this:

Code:

QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
Segmentation fault

I haven't looked much further into this because I can simply switch to a KDE Plasma session to run VLC. It isn't an urgent issue for me -- I don't use VLC all that much, anyway. Also, the following workaround runs the app okay from Openbox:

Code:

$ vlc --no-qt-system-tray

If any of this helps anyone, cool. I'm not requesting help; just thought I should mention it, seemed like it might possibly be related.

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 06:05 PM

Ok I got it nicer looking, but the icons are really tiny and I can't customize the toolbar?

If that's true then I still prefer VLC.

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by m.a.l.'s pa

I think I may have a related issue here. Debian Stretch, in Openbox, but this installation also has KDE Plasma -- I added Openbox later. VLC won't open in Openbox (when I try to start it from the menu), but it runs fine in KDE. If I try to run it in Openbox from the command line, the error messages go by too fast for me to see what's at the beginning, but the last few lines look like this:

Code:

QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
Segmentation fault

I haven't looked much further into this because I can simply switch to a KDE Plasma session to run VLC. It isn't an urgent issue for me -- I don't use VLC all that much, anyway. Also, the following workaround runs the app okay from Openbox:

Code:

$ vlc --no-qt-system-tray

If any of this helps anyone, cool. I'm not requesting help; just thought I should mention it, seemed like it might possibly be related.

Ayyeee! OK that eliminates the QPainter problem... however the window that appears is a giant behemoth that runs my CPU at 80% and when I say huge I mean it covered every work space, it was mostly blank, some MASSIVE menu buttons on it. Really weird.

m.a.l.'s pa · 06-10-2018, 06:17 PM

Also I put that command in my Openbox menu, and with that, looks like VLC runs fine here. No icon in the system tray, of course, but I never used that anyway. This is with tint2, by the way.

I'm like you, jfhendfg, in that I'd prefer to keep using VLC instead of switching to something else. I hope you get this resolved. I guess that's all I have. Later.

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 09:23 PM

Man, I haven't restarted my system, ran updates, or anything of that nature, I try to open SMPlayer and now it's loading an inoperable behemoth window just like VLC was doing.

It's like god himself is just messing with me

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 09:32 PM

This is just completely bonkers.
MPV works ok, SMPlayer just... it died I guess.

It's running like it's trying to put out 1000000dpi or something. I'm running high DPI for large fonts and windows that are readable at 10ft distance but nothing that crazy.

No freaking clue whats going on with my system anymore.

jfhendfg · 06-10-2018, 09:41 PM

So I just ran sudo apt-get --purge smplayer it removed smplayer, (and I assumed the configuration files)

I try to run sudo apt-get install smplayer ....cannot locate package

what the hell

ChuangTzu · 06-10-2018, 09:42 PM

sudo apt update then
sudo apt install smplayer

ChuangTzu · 06-10-2018, 09:43 PM

also, try renaming your vlc config (~/.config/vlc) to vlc_old, and then reload vlc to see if it was a config issue.

this may help:
https://forum.videolan.org/search.php?keywords=hidpi+

jfhendfg · 06-11-2018, 01:40 PM

Ok guys I think --purge must be a really really really inappropriate command for my situation. VLC and SMPlayer have both disappeared from Synaptic and apt-get.

W T F.

hydrurga · 06-11-2018, 01:47 PM

That's not how it works - just because you purge a package from your local system doesn't remove it from the repos.

Let's have a look at your repos. If you have inxi installed (if you don't, install it):

Code:

inxi -r

By the way, you purge a package with sudo apt-get purge package_name, whereas sudo apt-get --purge package_name should produce an error.

jfhendfg · 06-11-2018, 01:48 PM

Ok just ran an update and apt-get found VLC, weird, I tried that last night and it couldn't find it.

How the heck is my system changing things without me doing anything?
I rarely ever turn this off, automatic updates aren't supposed to be a thing as far as I understand too.. seriously what's up with that

jfhendfg · 06-11-2018, 02:02 PM

Also, for future reference to everyone, be careful when telling people to run purge commands. Most people here are on their wit's end and will plug in any command from the first person that seems to know what they're talking about, and that can obviously be quite a dangerous thing.

hydrurga · 06-11-2018, 02:18 PM

Purging smplayer did not result in your apparent inability to install it again.

The "sudo apt-get --purge" command you gave in post #53 is incorrect. No-one will have told you to do that, using that incorrect syntax anyway.