I am unable to start VLC in the gui mode, even if I force it with "vlc -I wx{windows}"
Created attachment 77114 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 77115 [details] equery depgraph vlc output
Created attachment 77116 [details] vlc -list output
Created attachment 77117 [details] emerge -vp vlc output
- see attachments for some relevant info - the problem seems to persist with vlc 0.8.2 as well as 0.8.4
I forgot to mention that no errors are being reported when I try to get into the GUI mode. VLC just drops me to the commandline version (not even ncurses, which works if I do "vlc -I ncurses")
Did you try rebuilding wxGTK?
Ok, I just confirmed that installing wxGTK-2.6.2-r1 (~x68 testing) followed by re-compilation of vlc-0.8.4a (~x68 testing) actually made wx gui to work. However, the latest non-testing versions do not work no matter how many times I recompile any of them.
Same problem for mee too. I figured out that dev-libs/libcdio-0.73 is needed to work with wxWidgeds. libcdio-0.73 provides /usr/lib/libcdio.so.5 which seems to be needed. Note that you need to recompile vlc after downgrading to libcdio-0.73. Hope that helps.
libcdio??? My finding is that this bug is related to the "pango_x_get_context" bug (#105189). Running "vlc -v --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache" -- as suggested on the VideoLAN Forums -- gave me [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so (/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0: undefined symbol: pango_x_get_context) which made me bump into the "pango/wxGTK"-bug. Emerging "wxGTK-2.6.2-r1" (~x86) solves the issue -- as already pointed out by Michael -- though emerging "unstable base libs" is something I'm really trying to avoid ... except if required for VERY, VERY good reasons ... like watching DVDs on my notebook. :-) Axel
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105189 ***
