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reedlaw

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 14

VLC causes entire system to lock up

I have the latest VLC from extra (2.2.1-2). It's been freezing my system so that neither mouse nor keyboard respond. I have to issue REISUB system request in order to unlock it. Sometimes it freezes immediately upon opening. Other times it freezes randomly. Has anyone else seen this behavior? It's been happening for a while but now it seems to be getting worse (i.e. it freezes immediately after a fresh boot without first running any other applications).

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: VLC causes entire system to lock up

Launch it at a terminal prompt, and look at the messages it outputs.

I use vlc each day, and I don't see any freezes on my system.

Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: VLC causes entire system to lock up

Might be the libdrm 2.4.60 bug

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 907

Re: VLC causes entire system to lock up

Telling some details about your system could help in finding the issue. For eample, if you use VDPAU acceleration with an old Radeon vga with a UVD1 engine then you are probably hit by this bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85320