[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: xdg-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897341 Title:

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

** Changed in: vlc Importance: Undecided = Unknown ** Changed in: vlc Status: Invalid = Unknown ** Changed in: vlc Remote watch: None = VLC Trac #5608 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

Synching upstream state manually AGAIN. Please stop this. ** Changed in: vlc Importance: Unknown = Undecided ** Changed in: vlc Status: Unknown = New ** Changed in: vlc Remote watch: VLC Trac #5608 = None ** Changed in: vlc Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

** Also affects: xdg-utils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897341 Title: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

It appears to be a bug with xdg-utils, or at least triggered from there: Looking at the strace output, there's a sleep process being invoked, which hangs/waits in the end: 15202 0.70 execve(/bin/sleep, [sleep, 50], [/* 71 vars */] unfinished ... This originates from

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

Thanks Rémi for following up. It looks like the grep process is the one blocking/waiting and it tends to wait 0-60 seconds, like there is a timeout of about one minute in grep / I/O handling. When suspending the command after closing vlc it looks like this: % vlc --play-and-exit foo.avi 21 |

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897341 Title: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout To

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

I am not able to reproduce the problem with the provided instructions. Please interrupt the process while it is stuck and make a threaded backtrace from that. ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

Manually updating upstream status. ** Changed in: vlc Importance: Unknown = Undecided ** Changed in: vlc Status: Unknown = New ** Changed in: vlc Remote watch: VLC Trac #5608 = None ** Changed in: vlc Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

** Description changed: When redirecting stderr to stdout, vlc hangs for some seconds: With redirect: % time vlc --play-and-exit ~/Videos/foo.avi 21 | grep foo vlc --play-and-exit ~/Videos/foo.avi 21 0.46s user 0.15s system 35% cpu 1.712 total grep foo 0.00s user 0.00s system 0%

[Bug 897341] Re: vlc hangs after exiting when its stderr is redirected to stdout

** Bug watch added: VLC Trac #5608 http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5608 ** Also affects: vlc via http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5608 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to