On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:27:12 -0600 Akkana Peck <akkzi...@shallowsky.com> wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.2.1-2+b1 > Severity: important > > VLC suddenly is no longer able to play audio on systems that don't > have pulseaudio installed. When I run it on an mp3 file -- > vlc filename.mp3 from the commandline -- it prints on stdout: > > PulseAudio server connection failure
VLC has been doing that ever since it had PulseAudio support (provided that the PulseAudio plugin is installed). That never prevented falling back to plain ALSA. > and then just sits there doing nothing. Clicking the play button > does nothing. It also won't exit: clicking the windowmanager dismiss > button sometimes makes the window go away, sometimes not, but either > way it doesn't return control to the terminal where I started it. That´s most probably got nothing to do with PulseAudio. Without logs and stack trace, it is just impossible to guess what went wrong. > And it would be nice if it gave the user a real error message > instead of just doing nothing, and exited gracefully without needing > kill -9. When a program locks up, it locks up. Not much to do about it. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers