Bug#794983: vlc does weird things with the .lock file

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: reassign -1 libqt5core5a 5.4.2+dfsg-5

On 2015-08-09 15:46:00, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le samedi 8 août 2015, 20:30:32 sacrificial-spam-address at horizon.com a écrit :
> > Package: vlc
> > Version: 2.2.1-2+b2
> > Architecture: i386
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > Somehow (it may have been a transient error caused by C++ ABI upgrades),
> > I ended up with:
> > 
> > $ ls ~/.config/vlc/
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > ...
> > vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.
> > rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > .rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmloc
> > k.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> > 
> > and ended up with vlc stuck looping retrying
> 
> VLC is not accessing the file directly, and definitely not taking care of 
> locking for it. It is the back-end to Qt's QSettings class.
> 
> This should probably be reassigned...

So let's reassign it.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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