Hi Rob, I've looked through some D-Bus code, and I think there's an environment variable that might let it continue after this error. Can you try:
`DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 vlc` `Best wishes,` `Thomas` On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, at 08:51, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote: > Hi all > > This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it > is qutie "subtle".... > > I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO) which won't play on VLC on > Ubuntu (Jammy). VLC opens and crashes immediately. The trouble is: > * The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows > * Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy. It may be that I > recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones with > another DVD recorder. Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play all of > them. > > I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below. It looks like > it's something to do with a locale. FWIW I've changed the output between > wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works. Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers > Rob > > VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) > Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use > QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. > disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv > disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv > bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed > dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, > assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file > ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760. > This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. > > D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace > Aborted (core dumped) > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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