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@Clarity Please wait with that, it's irrelevant now and doesn't belong in this thread.

I see. You want this thread to wholely contain issues with v9.2.X?

Got it. Awainting the v10 issues thread to use to report the bare-metal issues I see.

(Vanilla Dpup 9.2.27)
The vlc player installed using synaptic could previously be launched without any problem (from the menu, after clicking on a multimedia file, etc.) After yesterday's upgrade (apt update && apt upgrade), something probably changed. vlc will now not start in the normal way. Running "vlc" in terminal returns this:

~$ vlc
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

I only can start it typing "run-as-spot vlc" in terminal.

I am attaching the upgrade log if it would be useful:

Start-Date: 2022-12-07  17:12:08
Commandline: apt upgrade
Upgrade: vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), libvlc5:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc-data:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), libvlccore9:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc-bin:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc-l10n:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc-plugin-video-output:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), libvlc-bin:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1), vlc-plugin-base:amd64 (3.0.17.4-0+deb11u1, 3.0.18-0+deb11u1)
End-Date: 2022-12-07  17:12:20

(I've been upgrading google-chrome this way repeatedly for a long time now, and unlike vlc, everything has been trouble-free so far.)

Feek wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:34 pm

(Vanilla Dpup 9.2.27)
The vlc player installed using synaptic could previously be launched without any problem (from the menu, after clicking on a multimedia file, etc.) After yesterday's upgrade (apt update && apt upgrade), something probably changed. vlc will now not start in the normal way.

Maybe related to this? viewtopic.php?p=15921#p15921

@Feek Do you have a process called "fixmenusd" running? This one is responsible for updating the menus after package installation and forcing problematic application (like VLC and most browsers) to run as spot.

@dimkr

Does this mean that fixmenusd should be running at all times with its intent to force spot use?

Curious to be sure I understand its intent

It will run unless prevent it from starting, delete it, or if it crashed.

dimkr wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:42 am

@Feek Do you have a process called "fixmenusd" running? This one is responsible for updating the menus after package installation and forcing problematic application (like VLC and most browsers) to run as spot.

htop says it seems to be present::

So, it is designed to run at ALL times (with its intent to enforce spot use) for menu updates.

Feek wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:34 pm

(Vanilla Dpup 9.2.27)
The vlc player installed using synaptic could previously be launched without any problem (from the menu, after clicking on a multimedia file, etc.) After yesterday's upgrade (apt update && apt upgrade), something probably changed. vlc will now not start in the normal way. Running "vlc" in terminal returns this:

viewtopic.php?p=67660#p67660

@Sofiya , thanks for this solution. It works great.

I wanted to run vlc naturally without any interventions (as spot). But now I'm starting to strongly consider running as root since I don't stream anything online with vlc.