vlc crashes when trying to play a movie

Here is the generated bug report.

Please back up ~/.vlc, remove it, and try again.

Hi, tried that, but the same thing still happens:-( Please ask if I can do something else to help out.

Try starting from console with ./vlc --intf=rc instead of ./wxvlc

It seems to be a interface issue. wxwidgets for PPC might have a problem perhaps.

Hi. I had the same problem. I'm running Edgy on an iBook G3 (800 MHz). I tried to open an mp4 file (http://lix.cc/~lix/lix.cc/film/Alex_Antener-Freie_Software_eine_Chance_fuer_Afrika-23C3.mp4).
The problem is repoducable. Maybe the report file is of any help.

 M.

Crashed when opening .avi file.

Well, i tried to play small .ogg files and it crashes also. I'm running VLC 0.8.6 on Edgy.

I have the same problem, vlc crashes every time.
I attached my crash report.. it might help...

I had the same problem since my upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. I moved the ~/.vlc directory, relaunched VLC and everything worked fine.

Previously I had this error :
~~
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus

** (.:13946): CRITICAL **: clearlooks_style_draw_focus: assertion `height >= -1' failed
[00000299] main private error: option glx-shm does not exist
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 31 ()
  Serial number of failed request: 49
  Current serial number in output stream: 50
~~

go to System>Preferences>GL Desktop
and disable GL Desktop

There have been a large number of bugfixes with the latest VLC release, 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1. Can you reproduce your issue with this latest version? You can test this in Ubuntu Karmic, or Ubuntu Jaunty with the MOTU Media PPA at https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/ppa . Thanks in advance.

Been having this problem for a couple of ubuntu releases now. Here's my output.

mike@u-desktop:~$ vlc
VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye
[0x7f95e0000de8] main interface error: no interface module matched "globalhotkeys,none"
[0x7f95e0000de8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x7d1888] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[0x7d1888] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 133.19 failed with error code 8:
 BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request: 133 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
  Serial number of failed request: 102
  Current serial number in output stream: 103
mike@u-desktop:~$

This report has now grown useless as is. It seems to me that nearly all contributors to this bug are experiencing similar symptoms (vlc does not work) with very different causes.

As the original reporter, peter76, seems to have lost interest in this issue, (no further comment since submitting this bug), I'm closing this bug.

To all other subscribers to this bug: please report new bugs, but please make sure that you use the 'ubuntu-bug' utility to ensure that additional information, like the exact version of vlc and what dependencies that you use are attached automatically.

Sorry for this inconvinience.

Happens mostly on startup.