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Hello, I can't seem to play any of my music files using any of the above players. The players would just freeze up completely. My video files work fine on MPlayer, but also freeze up on VLC. I tried opening the file using vim, and it worked fine. I'm trying to play these files from a FAT32 partition on an external hard disk, which I've mounted with the following fstab entry:
LABEL=DISK_LABEL /home/user_name/disk_label vfat rw,user,noauto,exec,noatime,flush 0 0That is the first of two partitions, and there's space for a third, but I never got around to partitioning it.
I've checked /var/logs/error.log and dmesg, but nothing showed up in the timeframe that I started the media and killed it using:
kill -KILL (pid retrieved using `pgrep vlc`)At this point, I'm stumped, and I'm not entirely sure what my next step should be. I don't really know what information you need to help me out, but just tell me, and I'll post it up.
Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks!
SYSTEM INFORMATION:
I'm running ArchLinux on a Lenovo Laptop off of a 16GB usb drive. Last time I recall playing a sound file was on 10 August 2012. It was a small 10-second long mp3 from The Oatmeal, that plays a single, high-frequency tone. Another thing I noticed is that I can't seem to sign on to Skype. The two are probably unrelated, but I doubt it's pure coincidence that the two stopped working at around the same time.
THINGS I'VE TRIED:
Installing gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
Deleting ~/.config/vlc
Reinstalling vlc
Playing an mp3 stored on the root partition (I only have a boot partition and a root partition on my main drive, which is a USB)
Reverting back to sysvinit
Reverting back to bash from zsh
Solution:
So, I got it to work by doing a whole bunch of stuff I will list below. I have no idea which particular thing fixed it, but it works now. Surprisingly, it also fixed my Skype. I just reinstalled tor, and will update if it breaks again.
THINGS I DID THAT MADE IT WORK:
Uninstalled tor
Removed a whole bunch of unused packages listed below
Removed ~/.config/vlc, ~/pulse, ~/.pulse-cookie, ~/.Skype, ~/.purple. I might have failed to list a few.
Removed vlc, cleaned the pacman cache, then reinstalled vlc
If I had to guess, I'd say it was the deletion of ~/.pulse and ~/.pulse-cookie that fixed it, but I honestly don't know why it works now.
PACKAGES I REMOVED
audiofile (0.3.4-1)
boost (1.50.0-2)
boost-libs (1.50.0-2)
cairo-perl (1.082-2)
file-roller (3.4.2-1)
gedit (3.4.2-1)
geoclue (0.12.0-5)
gettext (0.18.1.1-4)
glib-perl (1.260-1)
gobject-introspection (1.32.1-2)
gtk2-perl (1.244-1)
gtksourceview3 (3.4.2-1)
iso-codes (3.38-1)
libao (1.1.0-2)
libdvbpsi (0.2.2-1)
libebml (1.2.2-2)
libgxps (0.2.2-1)
libimobiledevice (1.1.4-2)
libkate (0.4.1-3)
libmatroska (1.3.0-2)
libmpdclient (2.7-1)
libpeas (1.4.0-2)
libplist (1.8-2)
libtiger (0.3.4-3)
libtool (2.4.2-6)
libupnp (1.6.17-1)
libwebkit (1.8.2-1)
menumaker (0.99.7-8)
mime-types (8-1)
mpc (0.22-2)
mpd (0.17.1-1)
nano (2.2.6-2)
obconf (2.0.3.git20100309-3)
pango-perl (1.223-2)
pygobject-devel (3.2.2-1)
python2-gobject (3.2.2-1)
sdl_image (1.2.12-2)
tor (0.2.2.37-1)
tsocks (1.8beta5-5)
ttf-freefont (20120503-1)
ttf-paratype (20120711-1)
upower (0.9.17-2)
usbmuxd (1.0.8-1)
vlc (2.0.3-3)
xcb-util-keysyms (0.3.9-1)
yajl (2.0.4-1)
zenity (3.4.0-1)
zvbi (0.2.33-4)
Last edited by capidepadua (2012-08-24 07:52:12)
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Have you tried to see if you can play music from your home directory to ensure it's not an issue with the mounted partition?
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Yes, I just tried playing a 10-second mp3 file I acquired from The Oatmeal and didn't once pass my external hard disk. It's a simple, monotone, high-frequency sound, but I get the same results: VLC's UI is still responsive, but its functionality freezes up, i.e. the buttons are still animated, and the menu still works, but there's no sound, the progress bar doesn't move, and the file doesn't play.
Last edited by capidepadua (2012-08-24 05:53:10)
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