VLC freezes the whole system eating up the whole RAM
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vlc
At first I thought the problem was that I use "LADSPA Plugin Multiband EQ" output. Using this freezes everything when playing anything in VLC immediately, when I switched to the default output, it could play for some time, and then again, everything froze. I didn't have any problems with VLC in previous releases of Ubuntu.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 5 23:42:11 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I can confirm this bug. It happened to me while watching a 720p.mkv movie file and switching between vlc and chromium-browser.
vlc eats up the whole free memory, Ubuntu starts to swap, Hard Disk is busy, took me about 5 minutes to open a console and kill vlc. Then I was able to use my laptop as usual.