VLC AppImage can't start. (solved)

[soniabu]

Hi everyone. My system is FocalFossa 20.04.
I can't start VLC AppImage taken from here: https://github.com/cmatomic/VLCplayer-AppImage/releases
and that has been tested by the upstream maintainer to work on Ubuntu 20.04; I also compared MD5 checksum - with ours GtHash application - and everything is fine.
any suggestions?
thx,sonia

[dancytron]

VLC doesn't like to run as root.

Try in terminal

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"run-as-user /path/to/appimage"

There is also a hack to make it run as root that everyone uses, although I'm not sure how to do it to an appimage.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... er-in-root

[rockedge]

this command will modify the VLC binary to allow it to run directly as root and only needs to be done once (unless you upgrade VLC, then run it again):
Open a terminal and type /paste:

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sed -i 's/geteuid/getppid/' /usr/bin/vlc

or in a terminal (or small script) to run VLC as user 'spot' :

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run-as-spot vlc

[soniabu]

thx dancytron.
rock,
I don't have it in usr / bin / vlc but in an AppImage folder;
in fact the command gives me an error

[fredx181]

Try the command that dancytron suggested above, without the quotes (replace /path/to/appimage with the real path of your vlc appimage).
EDIT: The "sed -i 's/geteuid/getppid/' /usr/bin/vlc" *hack* command is for a regular install of vlc in /usr/bin/, not for appimage.

Fred

[soniabu]

Hi Fred, I hope you are well, I am fine.

Solved with this command: sudo chmod -R 775 directory name

[fredx181]

Hi Fred, I hope you are well, I am fine.

Hello, Sonia. Could be that the VLC.AppImage is not executable yet (goes for every appimage found on the web, need to make it executable before running), try to do first:

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chmod +x /yourpath/to/VLC.AppImage   # make executable

EDIT: Ah, see now that you solved it (overlooked first), great!

Fred

[soniabu]

solved Fred
sudo chmod -R 775 directory name
after
root@live:~# run-as-user /media/mmcblk0p1/AppImage/VLC.AppImage
VLC start

thx rock, dancy, Fred

[soniabu]

I solved it by launching Bleachbit which cleaned up a few things and thus created space to start VLC.
Do you know which drive is looking for space to start VLC?

sorry if I still disturb you on a problem that I thought I had solved.
I launch VLC with the same commands described in previous posts, but this time the result is this:

I don't understand as I still have space both on the disk and on the micro sd(mmcblk01p use 70% only) where my AppImage have been stored.

Any suggestions?
I solved it by launching Bleachbit which cleaned up a few things and thus created space to start VLC.
Do you know which drive is looking for space to start VLC?

[dancytron]

You are using "save only on exit"?

Maybe you filled up the tmpfs layer?

Did you do an upgrade or install something right before?

Running "save2flash" will flush a lot of the stuff from the tmpfs layer (unlike Puppy where you have to reboot).