> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:50:51 -0600
> From: John Hasler <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DVD/BD drive issues
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> If the drive firmware is crashing and requires power cycling to reboot
> there is nothing Linux can do about it.
>
> VLC runs on systems that don't use systemd. The upstream VLC developers
> assume that you know where your logs are kept.
>
The VLC devs not only assume that we know where we keep our logs, but that we
also know the seven steps to enable logs. Nevertheless, I was suggesting
changing the Debian Salsa repo to give the correct instructions:
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/vlc
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:12:33 +0000
> From: David <[email protected]>
> To: Debian User <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: DVD/BD drive issues
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> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 at 03:30, Borden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> [...] in VLC (incidentally, someone needs to fix that prompt to 'check
>> the VLC logs' when there's an error. I think they mean the user should
>> check journald).
>>
>
> Hi, you don't say why you think that, but I think that statement about the
> location of 'vlc' log files might be incorrect.
>
> I am using this version:
>
> $ apt list vlc
> Listing... Done
> vlc/oldstable,oldstable-security,now 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 amd64 [installed]
>
> and this is what I see about configuring log files in 'vlc':
>
> Main Menu > Tools > Preferences:
> The "Simple Preferences" dialog appears:
> Set radio button "Show settings" to "All"
> The "Advanced Settings" dialog appears:
> Advanced > Logger
> Enable logfile checkbox
> Specify log file name and format
>
You may be right. I just assumed everything went to journald. Again, the Salsa
copy can explain this rather than have everyone search for how to do this.
Interestingly, the very first result I got on my search engine was a blog post
titled "The Elusive VLC Log". The first page of results had not one link to
videolan.org. Adding site:videolan.org to my search only produced forum links.
Suppressing instructions to enable logging seems like a bug, not a feature.
