[15:29] <eamonnmr> Anyone running Steam or Lutrus on Lubuntu? Does that work or do I need to install Gnome
 eanmonnmr I've seen several videos on youtube of people doing it, /me haven't done it
[20:26] <Guest_6> Greetings.
[20:26] <Guest_6> Does anyone have experience with VLC crashing Lubuntu?
[20:27] <wxl> which version?
[20:27] <Guest_6> 18.04
[20:28] <wxl> old huh :/
[20:28] <Guest_6> I installed using synaptic package manager, completely uninstalled and installed via terminal.  Same crash result.
[20:29] <Guest_6> 18.04.3 LTS
[20:30] <wxl> so you're just opening vlc on its own and not opening a particular file?
[20:30] <Guest_6> yes
[20:30] <wxl> i see no bugs here (limited to those tagged with bionic) that include such a description
[20:30] <wxl> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_com
[20:30] <wxl> menter=&field.subscriber=&field.tag=bionic&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.upstream_target=&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&field.has_no_branches=on&field.has_blueprints.used=&field.has_blueprints=on&field.has_no_blueprints.
[20:30] <wxl> used=&field.has_no_blueprints=on
[20:31] <wxl> omg
[20:31] <Guest_6> It will use up the entire swap file, crash, with the error message that is has run out of memory
[20:31] <wxl> launchpad i hate you XD
[20:32] <wxl> https://v.gd/tLekNk
[20:32] <wxl> i've not heard of anyone having problems with newer versions, either. might be better to go with a newer version anyways.
[20:33] <wxl> is there a crash report in /var/crash?
[20:33] <wxl> do you get any output when running in terminal?
[20:33] <Guest_6> running vlc from terminal gives an error and goes on to say it is ignoring it
[20:34] <wxl> which error?
[20:34] <Guest_6> where is that logged?
[20:34] <wxl> it's not necessarily logged. the output itself may be the only indication of the error.
[20:34] <Guest_6> ah
[20:35] <Guest_6> well if I start it up I will have to wait about 5 minutes for it to crash before I can back to you
[20:35] <wxl> it takes 5 minutes to crash? with you just sitting there idling?
[20:35] <Guest_6> yes, watching a solid HD light
[20:35] <wxl> are you limited on memory?
[20:35] <Guest_6> no
[20:36] <Guest_6> on boot I only use ~300m
[20:36] <Guest_6> out of 1.5Gb
[20:37] <Guest_6> HTOP reveals that it slowly uses all the RAM and then the swap
[20:38] <wxl> yeah it's weird that i can't find any similar bug report
[20:38] <Guest_6> I'll run it to get the crash msg.  brb in about 5 minutes
[20:38] <wxl> ok
[20:50] <Guest_6> (vlc:2555) dbind-warning** 15.39.41.477:  Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:  The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files  Qapplication:  invalid style override passed, ignoring it.
[20:50] <Guest_6> that was the error in terminal
[20:51] <wxl> yeah sadly that's not that big of a deal
[20:51] <Guest_6> After about 5 minutes I get vlc terminates because of memory
[20:51] <wxl> is there an error in /var/crash?
[20:51] <Guest_6> let me look
[20:51] <wxl> s/error/report/
[20:52] <Guest_6> uh...yeah.  Its huge.  How do I post that here?
[20:53] <wxl> !pastebinit
[20:53] <wxl> but
[20:53] <wxl> there may be some private memory information in there
[20:53] <wxl> so you might not want to
[20:54] <wxl> you can file a bug with it though that will set it to private
[20:54] <Guest_6> This is a fairly fresh install
[20:55] <Guest_6> I don't see anything upon first glance that would compromise this PC
[20:55] <wxl> you could do `ubuntu-bug /var/crash/filename`
[20:58] <Guest_6> installing pastebin
[21:02] <Guest_6> Here is what I got using your last suggestion:
[21:02] <Guest_6> (apport-gtk:1776): dbind-WARNING **: 16:00:11.861: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service filesGtk-Message: 16:00:14.441: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discourage
[21:02] <Guest_6> and....
[21:03] <Guest_6> the vlc memory error even though I have rebooted and not started vlc
[21:03] <Guest_6> I've used VLC for years without a problem.  This is out of left field for me.
[21:04] <Guest_6> why would the "ubuntu-bug" command cause the same memory error as the starting vlc?
[21:11] <Guest_6> Thank you for your time
[21:11] <Guest_6> I will be back after I play around with it a bit more tomorrow.