Problems With VLC

gustavovalsan · 2011-07-02 01:25:54

Hi, I just installed arch linux and VLC i'm also running xorg with nvidia drivers and gnome 3. But whenever I try to launch VLC from the applications menu nothing happens and if I try to run it from terminal I get this out:

VLC media player 1.1.10 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x1639120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
vlc: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2: undefined symbol: XextFindDisplay

I have also done some research but havent been able to find any solution.

Any help with be truly appreciated... thanks in advance

swanson · 2011-07-02 03:05:10

Is dbus running?

gustavovalsan · 2011-07-03 18:07:34

Yes it is, It starts as a daemon but it makes no diference starting it latter on.

sigmund · 2011-07-04 22:34:08

The same happened to me.
To solve the problem I invoked cvlc that popped up a skinned player and - after resetting the preferences - vlc began working again.

gastamper · 2011-07-12 09:34:15

I had the same problem. Installing libxpm sorted out the problem, so you might give that a shot?

Last edited by gastamper (2011-07-12 10:28:12)

forkboy · 2011-07-14 12:17:43

gastamper wrote:

I had the same problem. Installing libxpm sorted out the problem, so you might give that a shot?

libxpm solved it for me too. Why do we get this problem?

zenja · 2011-07-18 08:29:37

I was going crazy from this problem as well and eventually figured out that libxpm needed to be installed. It should really be added as a dependency to the VLC package.

giovanni · 2011-07-19 08:39:51

I'm adding libxpm as depends in vlc-1.1.11-2
Please, try out and let me know.

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#1 2011-07-02 01:25:54

Problems With VLC

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Re: Problems With VLC

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