Bug#807805: vlc: Crash upon startup

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On 2015-12-13 03:58:37, Hormet Yiltiz wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.1-5+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    After a recent system upgrade in Debian Testing, `vlc` cannot start
>    and crashes reporting:
>    "QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set"
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    This is reproducable in my environment. I am running i3wm installed
>    alongside with KDE5. Reinstalling or reconfiguring `vlc` did not
>    solve the issue.
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    VLC crash upon startup. 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>    VLC starts normally.

Please install vlc-dbg and qtbase5-dbg and provide a full backtrace.

On 2015-12-13 06:07:25, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote:
> calling `vlc --no-qt-system-tray` will start vlc and is an effective
> workaround.

...

> I realized that vlc only crashes in my i3wm setup, but does not crash if
> started from the KDE5 environment.

Downgrading accordingly.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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