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[JayM]

I can't even get vlc to play a video. It opens the video then immediately shuts down. In the console it says

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free(): double free detected in tcache 2
Aborted

Installed version:

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$ apt policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 3.0.8-2mx19+2
  Candidate: 3.0.8-2mx19+2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.8-2mx19+2 500
        500 https://mirror.pregi.net/mx-linux-packages/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8-0+deb10u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages

QSI:

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System:    Host: mx19b3 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 root=/dev/sda5 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19beta-3_x64 patito feo September 22  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC 
           v: 049D210000241210000020000 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3659 v: 32.25 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
           v: F.1B date: 04/23/2010 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.4 Wh condition: 38.4/47.5 Wh (81%) volts: 12.4/10.8 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 430 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem 
           family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 2 microcode: 11 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 18088 
           Speed: 1330 MHz min/max: 1199/2267 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1413 
           2: 1406 3: 1434 4: 1401 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf 
           mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds 
           status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia 
           v: 340.107 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0a28 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GT216 HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0be2 
           Device-3: Philips s SAA7160 vendor: Avermedia driver: N/A bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 1131:7160 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM43225 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl 
           v: kernel port: 7000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4357 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 480.21 GiB used: 346.58 GiB (72.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory size: 14.45 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 48.00 GiB size: 47.00 GiB (97.91%) used: 6.03 GiB (12.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.03 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 66 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb https://mirror.pregi.net/mx-linux-packages/antix//buster buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://mirror.pregi.net/mx-linux-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 217 Uptime: 4m Memory: 3.78 GiB used: 798.4 MiB (20.6%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

It plays in mplayer so I know the video's OK:

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jay@mx19b3:~/Videos
$ mplayer Jack.Reacher.2012.720p.PoWeR.mkv
MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-8 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Jack.Reacher.2012.720p.PoWeR.mkv.
libavformat version 58.20.100 (external)
Mismatching header version 58.12.100
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x544  0bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 58.35.100 (external)
Mismatching header version 58.18.100
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Clip info:
 encoder: libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0
 creation_time: 2013-04-25T21:10:07.000000Z
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->384000)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 2.35:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1280x544 => 1280x544 Planar YV12 
A:  21.5 V:  21.5 A-V:  0.000 ct:  0.054   0/  0 16%  5%  0.5% 3 0 

Exiting... (Quit)

[JayM]

Also I tried opening guvcview to see if it might play the video and it doesn't run. In a console I get

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$ guvcview
GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.6
GUVCVIEW: couldn't open /home/jay/.config/guvcview2/video0 for read: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_a52.c:823:(_snd_pcm_a52_open) a52 is only for playback
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  155 (NV-GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  4 ()
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5000002
  Serial number of failed request:  101
  Current serial number in output stream:  101

I think guvcview was preinstalled by default, or at least I don't recall having installed it and it's not in my apt history, but it seems to depend on jack also being installed, which isn't (and I'm not going to install jack on my system.) Plus it didn't create the directory structure that it needs. $HOME/.config/guvcview2 is there but no video0 subdirectory. I manually created it which makes the first line of the terminal error messages go away but I still get the rest of them:

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$ guvcview
GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.6
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_a52.c:823:(_snd_pcm_a52_open) a52 is only for playback
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  155 (NV-GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  4 ()
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5000002
  Serial number of failed request:  101
  Current serial number in output stream:  101

Edit: I booted back into 18.3 and ran it and it works. It seems to just be a webcam app though, not a video viewer like I thought. 18.3 has version 2.04, 19b3 has 2.06.

[dolphin_oracle]

@JayM

looking at your quick-system-info/inxi output above, I don't think you're nvidia drivers are installed all the way.

[tascoast]

Running from the initial MX-19beta-1_x64 and updating regularly, what's next?
Wait for the next Beta version?
Sit tight and hope for a special announcement this side of the great global reindeer provisioning event?

[Jerry3904]

Best: new install with the RC, which is the next step and will upgrade directly to Final.

[winemaker]

maybe i need another pot of coffee - but did i read you right that if one installs the rc version it will be updateable to the stable final release version without having to do a complete new install? i had been wondering about that?

[Paul..]

Yup

[winemaker]

THanks Paul!

[bpr323]

I've done some more testing of "virgin" and "snapshot" installs of 19b3 - mostly "auto install using entire disk. Logs are attached below.

[bpr323]

3 more:
Found a bug in gparted
For each new install I did the following steps:
1) delete all existing partitions
2) device - create new partition table (msdos/gpt)
3) (optional) format whole disk to ntfs/ext4
4) reboot from USB LUMed with factory ISO or snapshot from a different X1 with working 19b3
and ... it would crap out every time
I then booted with EASEUS Partition Master boot USB and guess what - even though I deleted all partitions and created new partition table (but not formatted/unalloctaed) AND gparted was showing empty unallocated disk - the NTFS partition is still there!
The 8th iteration finally worked installing from factory ISO - but only after I deleted all partitions (i.e. the resilient NTFS) with EASEUS
The snapshot ISO install only worked once - when I installed over the working 19b2.1 (1st test)
I would also recommend disconnecting any external drives before installation - I accidentally "installed" on my external 1tb SSD with all my backups that was attached. The GUI minstall defaulted the target disk not to the internal NVMe, but to external SSD and b/c that field was highlighted in red I didn't notice and whacked a corrupted install on it and spent several hours restoring data with RLinux5_x64 (excellent GUI prog (R-disk) free edition for Linux