[vlc] privileged/vlc-wrapper/set-UID/trusted start failure messages

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/06/25 14:13 (GMT+0200) Christophe Mutricy composed:

> On Sat, Jun 25, 11 at 01:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>>  On the computer hooked to my TV, there is only root, and will only
>>  be root for the foreseeable future, maybe forever. Root verifies
>>  everything works before wasting time configuring users. How do I
>>  make VLC play DVD isos in the meantime, so that I know VLC actually
>>  can do what it is claimed to do?

> ./configure --help |grep root and recompile

Since multimedia packages and their deps get rebuilt almost daily, you're 
saying people running a single purpose Linux are supposed to compile VLC 
nearly every day they do updates and want to run it? Windows users don't have 
to do that!

Your answer is all over the internet, and of no use to me. I don't clutter my 
systems with devel packages, only running precompiled software on them, and 
on the systems I build, and those I repair, and those I install software on. 
No one should have to recompile a program to run on Linux that can can be run 
in Windows without recompiling, particularly since on Linux root is god and 
can do absolutely anything (other than run VLC!). IOW, if root cannot run an 
application, something is very wrong.

The error messages produced by trying to run as root are not self 
explanatory, and thus I asked here how to run as they imply can be done so 
that I can test to make sure an application is properly installed by running 
it first as root; or if an ordinary user cannot run it, test run it as root 
in order to ensure that the ordinary user is not impeded by his own user 
settings.

Only after I know the hardware is capable of doing its job running all 
significant installed software do I spend my time configuring user accounts, 
if then. A system dedicated to nothing but outputting video to a TV shouldn't 
need but one user. If VLC cannot let me do my job, I can't use VLC, or 
install it, or recommend it, for any OS.
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