Enabling VLC causes stack trace and prevents OpenLP from starting

[Phill]

From: http://support.openlp.org/issues/499

Ubuntu
OpenLP 1.9.9

 File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/openlp/core/ui/media/vlc.py", line 894, in media_player_new
    p._instance = self
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '_instance'

 Got to the media tab, saw the VLC option and ticked it, moved it to the top of the list. Got two "oops" messages one after the other. (Tracebacks are in the attached file - same error as before I think.)

 - I hadn't deleted the config file.

After deleting that, and the files in ~/.local/share/openlp, and reinstalling, and restarting the computer (didn't work without that), openlp started with a "first use" wizard. So now it is working with the default songs etc. I haven't tried getting back our own songs, bibles, themes etc yet. I will report back after trying that.

[rimach (crichter)]

I can reproduce this issue also at Windows XP with a VLC Version older than 1.1

VLC doesnt recommend usage of VLC Version 1.0.6 for ubuntu anymore.
see: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

May you could upgrade to a newer version of VLC to solve this issue!

I recommend to close this defect!

[Jonathan Corwin (j-corwin)]

Can we put an error trap around, and disable VLC if this error occurs?