[PLUG] VLC won't launch

[Tomas Kuchta]

Try:
kill -9 320874

Then:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

And reboot.

Tomas

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 21:38 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800
> Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com> 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.
>
> I should probably oughtta file a bug report about this - an instance of
> VLC running when there is no window for it is just wrong.
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