[vlc-devel] vlc hangs

[turgut kalfaoğlu]

Hi there. VLC recently starting hanging at startup and not presenting 
its gui, requiring "kill -9" to stop it.

Under Fedora 35, all updates applied, KDE/X11.

I tried sudo strace vlc and found this:

(....)

newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}, AT_EMPTY_PATH) 
= 0
read(5, "Name:\tvlc\nUmask:\t0022\nState:\tR ("..., 1024) = 1024
read(5, "000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0"..., 1024) = 355
close(5)                                = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node", 
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}, AT_EMPTY_PATH) 
= 0
getdents64(5, 0x556378882ce0 /* 11 entries */, 32768) = 360
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 6
newfstatat(6, "", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}, 
AT_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
read(6, "Node 0 MemTotal:       16372896 "..., 4096) = 1208
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
getdents64(5, 0x556378882ce0 /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(5)                                = 0
sched_getaffinity(0, 512, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 
14, 15]) = 8
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/cpu", 
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}, AT_EMPTY_PATH) 
= 0
getdents64(5, 0x55637888ada0 /* 34 entries */, 32768) = 992
getdents64(5, 0x55637888ada0 /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(5)                                = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/status", O_RDONLY) = 5
newfstatat(5, "", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}, AT_EMPTY_PATH) 
= 0
read(5, "Name:\tvlc\nUmask:\t0022\nState:\tR ("..., 1024) = 1024
read(5, "000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0"..., 1024) = 355
read(5, "", 1024)                       = 0
close(5)                                = 0
futex(0x7fd0762defa8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
futex(0x7fd0762defa8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
futex(0x7fd070c296bc, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
futex(0x7fd070c296c8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(0,

died there.. or rather, got stuck there.

How can I proceed?

Many thanks, -turgut

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