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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)
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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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as workaround set 'aout' in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc to 'alsa'
Linux odin 3.13.1-pf #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 5 21:47:28 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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@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)
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