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jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

[solved] vlc aborting with pulseaudio error - no pulseaudio installed

Hi,

I cannot start pulseaudio on my system anymore:

> vlc
VLC media player 2.1.0 Rincewind (revision 2.1.0-0-gedd8835)
[0x1729ce8] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[0x165e028] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I don't know why VLC is trying to use pulseaudio. The pulseaudio package is not (and was never) installed:

> pacman -Qi pulseaudio
error: package 'pulseaudio' was not found

This thread suggests to remove the alsa-plugins package. But this is also not installed on my system:

> pacman -Qi alsa-plugins
error: package 'alsa-plugins' was not found

Changing any settings in VLC is not possible because the application crashes before any GUI is visible. I also tried to delete the ~/.config/vlc directory without success.

Is something wrong with my system (all updates done, not using [testing] repo) or is this a bug in the vlc package (vlc 2.1.0-3)?

Thanks in advance & kind regards,
jamesbond007.

Last edited by jamesbond007 (2013-10-17 18:28:10)

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [solved] vlc aborting with pulseaudio error - no pulseaudio installed

Did you check out this bug report?

One of the comments:

The workaround for segfault in ArchWiki's VLC page works for me.

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Thaodan

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From: Dortmund, Nordrein-Westfalen

Registered: 2012-04-28

Posts: 448

Re: [solved] vlc aborting with pulseaudio error - no pulseaudio installed

as workaround set 'aout' in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc to 'alsa'

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jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: [solved] vlc aborting with pulseaudio error - no pulseaudio installed

@alphaniner: Thanks, that worked!

For the records:

1) as user: /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f usr/lib/vlc/plugins
2) reinstall vlc (as root): pacman -S vlc

==> marked as solved

Last edited by jamesbond007 (2013-10-17 18:29:05)