Public bug reported: I close a VLC window. This placed VLC in a weird state: it wouldn’t start again. There was still a VLC icon on the taskbar. I clicked on it and selected “Quit”, but VLC would still not stop. Typing “killall vlc” on a terminal would not stop the issue. The only way I found to actually stop VLC was to do “ps -e | grep vlc” then kill -9 the displayed number. I guess that one of VLC’s process was in some kind of zombie state?
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: vlc-bin 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-1076.86-oem 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1076-oem x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Mar 27 14:14:13 2020 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+berlinetta-cfl-r+X77 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-28 (211 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38 ProcEnviron: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SourcePackage: vlc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: vlc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1869370 Title: VLC refuses to stop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1869370/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
