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Bug 136356

Summary: VLC 0.8.4a won't play any video
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Phil <pxa7736>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: media-video
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Phil 2006-06-10 21:14:48 UTC
I have a brand new system, most of the packages on it are very first builds of them, nothing's ~x86, nothing's been explicitly masked or unmasked...but when running VLC and attempting to play video depending on which user VLC is run as and which video output module is selected I'll either get only sound output with blank video or this error:

VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus 
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 
  Major opcode of failed request:  78 (X_CreateColormap) 
  Value in failed request:  0x0 
  Serial number of failed request:  18 
  Current serial number in output stream:  19

# Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9-NO_PETEY i686) 
# ================================================================= 
# System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9-NO_PETEY i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz 
# Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 
# ccache version 2.3 [disabled] 
# dev-lang/python:     2.4.2 
# dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] 
# dev-util/ccache:     2.3 
# dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present] 
# sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17 
# sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7 
# sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 
# sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2 
# sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 
# sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22 
# virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
# AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
# CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
# CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" 
# CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
# CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" 
# CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
# CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" 
# DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
# FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
# GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 
# MAKEOPTS="-j3" 
# PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
# PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
# PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
# SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
# USE="x86 X a52 aac aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba screen sdl session slp sockets spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
# Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Phil 2006-08-19 09:50:58 UTC
Now getting the same error on my own system, also freshly rebuilt. Same version of GCC, VLC version is 0.8.4a-r1, it happens after loading VLC when I actually hit the play button.  The same error is also reported by wine when trying to start at ALL (this includes running winecfg), and also by gmplayer when it tries to start.

I have tried rebuilding nvidia drivers and switching opengl profiles.  Not sure what caused this because VLC was working fine when I first built the system but after no more than a day or two it started behaving like this.

here is emerge --info

Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4-Fluffy i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4-Fluffy i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib aim alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cli crypt cups directfb dlloader dri dvd eds emboss encode expat fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mhash mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork multiuser mysql ncurses nethack nls nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection rpm samba sdl session skins snmp spell spl sse ssl svg svga sysfs tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindows xcomposite xinerama xml xml2 xmlreader xmms xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 2 Phil 2006-08-19 10:03:19 UTC
Just a quick update, trying VLC 0.8.5 did not change the behavior at all
Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-30 18:42:58 UTC
Please give a try to 0.8.6_rc1 and if it's still an issue report upstream.