[ATrpms-users] CentOS 5.5 and vlc 1.1.x

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Theophanis Kontogiannis <
theophanis_kontogiannis at yahoo.gr> wrote:

>  Hello All,
>
> Using ATrpms I tried to install vlc 1.1.2 in a newly installed centos 5.5
> (x86_64)
>
> I installed the atrpms yum repo (via the provided rpm file) and the did
> 'yum install vlc'
>
> All was installed however running vlc 1.1.2 gives the following error:
>
> VLC media player 1.1.2 The Luggage (revision exported)
> LibVLC has detected an unusable buggy GNU/libc version.
> Please update to version 2.8 or newer.
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> [0x1cbe120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc'
> to use vlc without interface.
> [0x1dcb650] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found
> (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
> [0x1dcb650] skins2 interface error: cannot instanciate qt4 dialogs provider
> [0x1cbe120] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed
>
>
>
> The issue is the 2.8 library? Cause installing a 2.8 glibc will end up with
> a non RHEL/CentOS 5.5 installation.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Most of these messages are normal on rhel5.
But does it work? If not, try setting

setenv LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK 1

for csh or

set LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1

if you are using bash.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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