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<p>Hi there. VLC recently starting hanging at startup and not
presenting its gui, requiring "kill -9" to stop it.<br>
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<p>Under Fedora 35, all updates applied, KDE/X11.</p>
<p>I tried sudo strace vlc and found this:</p>
<p>(....)</p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">newfstatat(5,
"", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}, AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
</span><br>
read(5, "Name:\tvlc\nUmask:\t0022\nState:\tR ("..., 1024) = 1024
<br>
read(5, "000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0"..., 1024) = 355
<br>
close(5) = 0
<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
<br>
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...},
AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
<br>
getdents64(5, 0x556378882ce0 /* 11 entries */, 32768) = 360
<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo",
O_RDONLY) = 6
<br>
newfstatat(6, "", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...},
AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
<br>
read(6, "Node 0 MemTotal: 16372896 "..., 4096) = 1208
<br>
read(6, "", 4096) = 0
<br>
close(6) = 0
<br>
getdents64(5, 0x556378882ce0 /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
<br>
close(5) = 0
<br>
sched_getaffinity(0, 512, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15]) = 8
<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/cpu",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
<br>
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...},
AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
<br>
getdents64(5, 0x55637888ada0 /* 34 entries */, 32768) = 992
<br>
getdents64(5, 0x55637888ada0 /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
<br>
close(5) = 0
<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/status", O_RDONLY) = 5
<br>
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...},
AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
<br>
read(5, "Name:\tvlc\nUmask:\t0022\nState:\tR ("..., 1024) = 1024
<br>
read(5, "000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0"..., 1024) = 355
<br>
read(5, "", 1024) = 0
<br>
close(5) = 0
<br>
futex(0x7fd0762defa8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
<br>
futex(0x7fd0762defa8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
<br>
futex(0x7fd070c296bc, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
<br>
futex(0x7fd070c296c8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 5
<br>
read(0, <br>
<br>
died there.. or rather, got stuck there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace">How can I proceed? <br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace">Many thanks, -turgut</span></p>
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