It may be worth trying to add a temp user and seeing if it is a system wide issue or user profile issue. That should help limit the scope of the issue.
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/28/20 2:48 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:38:22 -0800 > > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > > >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800 > >> Jason Barnett <[email protected]> dijo: > >> > >>> check to see if it is already running in the background > >>>> ps -A |grep vlc > >>> If so, then kill it > >>> > >>>> killall vlc > >> Interesting. The grep command gave me: > >> > >> 320874 ? 03:37:35 vlc > >> > >> Even though there was no VLC window on the desktop. So then I did > >> 'killall vlc,' but it still wouldn't launch. Finally I opened the GUI > >> task manager and there it was, still running. I killed it with the task > >> manager, and that did the job. All is well now. > > It just started doing it again. Last time I found it running in the GUI > > task manager, killed it there, and then it started working again. This > > time it did not appear in the task manager, but the ps -A |grep vlc > > command gave me the PID 406292, which I then killed, and afterwards vlc > > started working again. > > > > How can there be a PID that does not appear in the GUI task manager? > > Next time this happens, how can I find out more information about a > > PID? I am assuming here that some random piece of VLC is not being shut > > down when I close VLC, and whatever it is, it's stopping me from > > launching VLC from the GUI file manager. And note that if VLC is > > running I can open a second window of it to play a different video. > > > Does VLC have the ability to run in the background? VLC does more than > just play videos, it also has the ability to transcode and do other A/V > related tasks in the background. Try checking in the settings for a "run > in the background" or "Close to system tray" option. I would not be > surprised if VLC has something left on its "todo" list when you close it > so all you have to do is identify what that is and tell it to stop. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Vince Winter Tech Support Staff Free Geek _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
