Re: VLC froze twice: so reboot
02/03/2012 14:37, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> On 01/03/12 17:50, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
>> 01/03/2012 18:01, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze.
>>> Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W
>>> reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where
>>> it froze and went on watching. A few minutes later, the computer froze
>>> again.
>>>
>>> This time, after I had done the H/W reset and rebooted the OS, I started
>>> using Kaffeine. No more problems. Then, this morning, I watched another
>>> DVD using Kaffeine and again no problems.
>>>
>>> The version of VLC was 2.0.0 with KDE 4.7.2 and kernel
>>> 3.2-7.towo.2-siduction-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT
>>> I am using the siduction distribution which is based on Debian unstable.
>
>> Hi, what is the video driver in use (i.e. nvidia, fglrx, radeon,
>> nouveau, intel) ?
> Nvidia, AFAIK.
>
>> Did you try to launch vlc from the command line with "-v" option:
>>
>> vlc -v /path/to/video
>>
>> to see if it prints any error ?
> No, I did not.
>
>> I had a freeze yesterday while using vlc, but it turned out to be a more
>> general video driver bug.
> I shall try Kaffeine next time I want to watch a DVD.
> --
> Sian Mountbatten
> Algol 68 specialist
>
>
Latest Nvidia binary driver (295.20) isn't exactly a good brew, several
bug reports are appearing on different forums, NVidia site and Debian
bug tracker [1]. It seems to be good at locking/crashing X, or even
locking the system entirely. The most advanced investigation I read
mentioned crashes when some processes fork. Another reminder of the risk
associating with running closed-source drivers.
[1] #661253 (link to other reports in posts)
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