Bug#901252: vlc: Fail to launch, QPainter not active

[Sebastian Ramacher]

[Please keep the bug in CC]

On 2018-06-10 17:50:20, John Hendricks wrote:
> I apologize, this is the first bug report I've ever filed. I'm not sure where VLC keeps the log file, so I will attach the output of vlc -vvv in a text file.
> I am unable to produce output from the given reportbug -n command. Anything I can do to help just please let me know and please be patient with me, I will do whatever I can.

Please start a new bug report against vlc, copy the complete dependency
information and send it to this report.

For the log, please run vlc as:

vlc -vv >log.txt 2>&1

and then attach log.txt.

Cheers

> 
>     On Sunday, June 10, 2018, 12:39:33 PM EDT, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:  
>  
>  Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unpreoducible
> 
> Hi
> 
> On 2018-06-10 11:52:47, John Hendricks wrote:
> > Source: vlc
> > Version: 3
> > Severity: grave
> > Tags: upstream
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I upgraded to VLC3 from Synaptic's Mark All Updates option, the bug started
> > here.
> > 
> > I ran a complete purge of all VLC packages and reinstall via rebuild from
> > source.
> > 
> > No results, bug persisted
> 
> This bug lacks many details which make this report unactionable. Please, while
> having vlc installed, run reportbug -N NNNNNN vlc (replace the bug number with
> the number of this bug) and let us know all the data that reportbug generates
> (dependencies and versions, correct vlc version and so on). Also, please
> reproduce the problem using vlc -vvv and attach the log output to the bug
> report.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 9.4
> >  APT prefers stable-updates
> >  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > 
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> -- 
> Sebastian Ramacher  



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Sebastian Ramacher
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