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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:25:44 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        gljennjohn@googlemail.com
Cc:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multimedia/vlc: suddenly no graphical interface
Message-ID:  <CAGH67wQzZhUedVgf6LKNaR-US%2BgCAnUjm0M7jrjqC%2BZ5XhyZcg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111107183349.76e52976@ernst.jennejohn.org>
References:  <4EB7A8F4.60403@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111107183349.76e52976@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:46:28 +0100
> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> On all of my used FreeBSD 9.0-RCX and FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT boxes (all
>> amd64 and CLANG compiled), I do not have a graphical user interface in
>> VLC anymore. Instead, calling vlc most recent 1.1.11), I get this error:
>>
>> VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported)
>> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
>> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
>> [0x8020521b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
>> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
>> [0x80205ad70] main interface error: option qt-volume-complete does not exist
>> [0x80205ad70] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found
>> (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
>> [0x80205ad70] skins2 interface error: cannot instanciate qt4 dialogs
>> provider
>> [0x8020521b0] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed
>>
>>
>> Recompiling the multimedia/vlc port did not help, also unsuccessful was
>> the recompilation of any qt4-port installed on the system. I also tried
>> to find the local configuration files in my home directory and delete
>> them, without any success.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with the DBUS subsystem named in the error?
>>
>
> No, this is what I seea and my GUI works:
>
> VLC media player 1.1.5 The Luggage (revision exported)
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
> Blocked: call to setlocale(0, "")
> Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffff9fbcb0, 0x7fffff9fbcd0)
> [0x801c86b70] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module

^^^

> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffffffd5e0, 0x7fffffffd600)
> Blocked: call to sigaction(20, 0x7fffffffd600, 0x0)
>
> The version of vlc which I'm using:

Your vlc install is broken too. You'll need to ktrace / truss vlc
until you find the broken library as vlc likes to hide those details
from the end-user (even when invoking vlc with --verbose).
HTH,
-Garrett



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