Bug 17858

Summary:	VLC must be killed if you select an non-existent file from the "recent media" menu
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin <LpSolit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/16697#ticket
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	vlc-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2016-03-01 18:03:33 CET

Start VLC, and select a file from the "recent media" menu which has been moved or deleted. If you have "repeat playlist" enabled, or whatever the name in english is (répéter la liste en boucle), then VLC sends an error message again and again due to the non-existent target. You have no other choice to kill the application (kill -9 PID). Once VLC emitted an error message about a file, it shouldn't try to throw it again and again.

Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2016-03-01 20:19:37 CET

Source RPM: vlc => vlc-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted.src.rpm

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-01 22:11:39 CET

Did you recently report this somewhere else, too? This looks so familiar, but I can't find a similar bug or dev ml mail.

Anyway, assigning to maintainer

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 2 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2016-03-01 23:05:17 CET

I mentioned it in bug 17724.

Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2016-03-02 00:35:20 CET

I can reproduce this problem here on Cauldron as well. I'm going to try building the upstream version from git master source.

Version: 5 => Cauldron
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Comment 4 Shlomi Fish 2016-03-02 00:59:02 CET

(In reply to Shlomi Fish from comment #3)
> I can reproduce this problem here on Cauldron as well. I'm going to try
> building the upstream version from git master source.

I can reproduce the problem with VLC-3.0-git-master built from source. Marking as UPSTREAM.

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 5 Shlomi Fish 2016-03-02 01:20:58 CET

Add the upstream bug URL.

URL: (none) => https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/16697#ticket

Comment 6 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2016-03-02 01:25:00 CET

I found https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6339 meanwhile.

Comment 7 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2016-03-02 01:29:53 CET

Wow, their bug tracker is so useless!! https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11961 has been marked as a duplicate, but I see nowhere in the UI the original ticket ID. So no idea if this problem is being tracked somewhere or not.

Comment 8 Morgan Leijström 2021-03-14 23:24:55 CET

This bug is old - no idea if it got fixed in Mageia 6 or 5, if not the bug could be set as resolved old.

But anyway: Testing in Mageia 7:
vlc-3.0.12.1-1.1.mga7.x86_64 from testing
I cant reproduce, so fixed :)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => fri
Resolution: (none) => FIXED