VLC menus mangled

[William Pietri]

Binary package hint: vlc

I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04.

My problem appears to be with VLC 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1.

When I launch VLC, either from the command line, from a menu, or by inserting a DVD, all text is corrupted, including in menus and dialogs. To the extent that I can use it, the app otherwise appears fine. No other application I have tried appears to have this problem.

To make the issue clearer, I have attached a screenshot of the corruption.

I'm glad to perform further investigations as requested, but I have no idea what might be causing this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vlc 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: vlc
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[PLUG-JSync (ubuntu-fora)]

This bug also impacts the AMD64 build of the same package, with the exact same symptoms.
video is ati (using GPL driver) on this machine.
Here is what vlc reports on my system when run from the command line:

VLC media player 0.9.9a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=2ubuntu1' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-realrtsp' '--disable-dv' '--enable-x264' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

I have the text garble every now and then, but it is usually during use. /but/ I've had similar things occur in skype, so I don't think VLC is necessarily where the bug lives.

[William Pietri (william-launchpad-net)]

As of a recent auto-upgrade, this has magically gotten better. According to dpkg.log, these are the related packages that were changed:

libqtcore4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4
libglu1-mesa 7.4-0ubuntu3
libcups2 1.3.9-17ubuntu1
shared-mime-info 0.60-1
libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.4-3ubuntu1
libqtgui4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.4-0ubuntu3
libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6

I'll try to close this bug myself; if I can't, whomever evaluates this should feel free to.

[William Pietri (william-launchpad-net)]

Wait, that's not quite correct. Those are the versions as of the time I reported the bug. The new packages are:

shared-mime-info 0.60-1
libcups2 1.3.9-17ubuntu3
libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
shared-mime-info 0.60-1
libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.4-3ubuntu1.1
libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.4-0ubuntu3.1
libqtcore4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.1
libqtgui4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.1
libglu1-mesa 7.4-0ubuntu3.1

Also, I'm going to leave the status alone, as I don't know the status of this on AMD64.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

This is a bug in all Qt4 applications. Not VLC's "fault".

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Nvidia bug.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Not enough information has been provided to troubleshoot. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting for instructions on reporting X issues.

[William Pietri (william-launchpad-net)]

Hi! That's unfortunate. When I reported the bug a year ago I would have been glad to provide more information. Telling me now that this bug report is inadequate is frustrating, and reduces the likelihood that I will report bugs in the future.