7:02 a.m.
Hi
I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while.
The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some
video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from
blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and kill
it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that vlc
has terminated completely?
Cheers
Robin
10:25 a.m.
On Fri, 15 May 2020 14:02:17 +0200
Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org> wrote:
The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
some
video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver
from blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home
after being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time.
Not so good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process
and kill it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that
vlc has terminated completely?
You definitely need to open a bugzilla against vlc. If it doesn't
terminate when asked to, that is a bug. Now, whether it is vlc at
fault, or the system, is hard to say. But a bugzilla will at least get
things rolling.
What happens if instead of using vlc to quit, you hit Alt-F4 when it is
in focus to close it? That sends a terminate signal, and its internal
logic then cleans up and closes. The difference is that this is
external rather than internal.
10:45 a.m.
On 5/15/20 8:02 AM, Robin Lee wrote:
Hi
I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while.
The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some
video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from
blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and kill
it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that vlc
has terminated completely?
After I exit VLC, I notice it up in my System Panel (I am using Xfce)
and I have to right click it and exit VLC.
2:01 p.m.
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:25 -0700, stan via users wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2020 14:02:17 +0200
Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org> wrote:
> The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
> some
> video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
> process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver
> from blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home
> after being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time.
> Not so good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc
> process
> and kill it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
>
> Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that
> vlc has terminated completely?
You definitely need to open a bugzilla against vlc. If it doesn't
terminate when asked to, that is a bug. Now, whether it is vlc at
fault, or the system, is hard to say. But a bugzilla will at least
get
things rolling.
What happens if instead of using vlc to quit, you hit Alt-F4 when it
is
in focus to close it? That sends a terminate signal, and its
internal
logic then cleans up and closes. The difference is that this is
external rather than internal.
I had a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com but didn't find a VLC
component there. Mine vlc rpm package comes from RPM Fusion. Is there
some other way to get it?
Tested the Alt-F4 method, but I found that it also could leave a vlc
process running in the background.
2:07 p.m.
On 5/15/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
I had a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com but didn't find a
VLC
component there. Mine vlc rpm package comes from RPM Fusion. Is there
some other way to get it?
rpmfusion has their own bugzilla:
https://rpmfusion.org/ReportingBugs
Or you can try reporting it upstream to vlc directly.
4:54 p.m.
On 2020-05-15 20:02, Robin Lee wrote:
Hi
I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while.
The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some
video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from
blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and kill
it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that vlc
has terminated completely?
What desktop are you running and how are you starting vlc?
I run KDE and the vlc from rpmfusion and have never seen this issue.
In KDE you can modify the menu item to start vlc. So, if you use KDE or a DE that allows
that
you can start vlc from within a script and at the end of the script use killall to kill
any stray vlc
processes. That would at least be a work around until any bugzilla you file gets
addressed.
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11:05 a.m.
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 05:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-05-15 20:02, Robin Lee wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while.
>
> The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
> some
> video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
> process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver
> from
> blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
> being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
> good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and
> kill
> it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
>
> Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that
> vlc
> has terminated completely?
>
>
What desktop are you running and how are you starting vlc?
Gnome. The most frequent (I think) way I start VLC is from Files and
right-click to get to 'Open with other application'
5:20 a.m.
Hi,
The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
some
video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from
blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and kill
it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that vlc
has terminated completely?
For what it's worth I see this exact same issue, on F31 and F32. Not
sure exactly when it started but I see it even when I start vlc from the
command line. I "close" the vlc window but often still have to CTRL-C on
the terminal. In addition when I pause videos, it still sits chewing
100% CPU time, or rather 200% in this case on my little 2 core netbook.
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Regards,
Ian Chapman
5:56 a.m.
On 5/18/20 6:20 AM, Ian Chapman wrote:
Hi,
> The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched some
> video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
> process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver from
> blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
> being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
> good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and kill
> it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
>
> Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that vlc
> has terminated completely?
For what it's worth I see this exact same issue, on F31 and F32. Not
sure exactly when it started but I see it even when I start vlc from
the command line. I "close" the vlc window but often still have to
CTRL-C on the terminal.
When this happens, check the system panel. Do you see a VLC icon
there? Right click and exit. Does this clear up your terminal window?
VLC, for me, has this background task that stays running unless I exit it.
In addition when I pause videos, it still sits chewing 100% CPU time,
or rather 200% in this case on my little 2 core netbook.
8:10 a.m.
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:20 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
For what it's worth I see this exact same issue, on F31 and F32.
Not
sure exactly when it started but I see it even when I start vlc from
the command line. I "close" the vlc window but often still have to
CTRL-C on the terminal.
It could be a codec. Some badly encoded files being played, or a badly
written codec that handles it. I find some files would jam up VLC
hard, and it couldn't be quit without a reboot.
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8:20 a.m.
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:20 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
Hi,
> The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
> some
> video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
> process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver
> from
> blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
> being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
> good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and
> kill
> it, then the screen saver can again do its thing.
>
> Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that
> vlc
> has terminated completely?
For what it's worth I see this exact same issue, on F31 and F32. Not
sure exactly when it started but I see it even when I start vlc from
the
command line. I "close" the vlc window but often still have to CTRL-C
on
the terminal.
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it also
doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt is
not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up anymore
in system monitor.
4:33 a.m.
Robin Lee wrote:
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it also
doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt is
not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up anymore
in system monitor.
I also experienced the same and more recent Vlc weirdness.
I fixed it by removing the config file with:
$ mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlc--00--maybe-broken
If you don't need the old config, try it.
2:05 a.m.
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:33 +0200, Mayavimmer wrote:
Robin Lee wrote:
> Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
>
> Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it
> also
> doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
> disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt
> is
> not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up
> anymore
> in system monitor.
I also experienced the same and more recent Vlc weirdness.
I fixed it by removing the config file with:
$ mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlc--00--maybe-broken
If you don't need the old config, try it.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't change anything for me. I
guess it just some combination of content and slightly buggy codecs
that sometimes causes VLC not to exit cleanly. And the screen saver
can't tell the difference between that a running vlc that you don't
want to blank the screen on.
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