Bug ID 943480
Summary Crash of Amarok, KNotify and Kaffeine when packman vlc and phonon-backend-vlc installed
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version 13.2
Hardware All
OS openSUSE 13.2
Status NEW
Severity Critical
Priority P5 - None
Component Other
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter lambhaka@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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If the vlc from Packman repository and phonon-backend-vlc are both installed,
then the system start to crash on multiple places (i.e. start of amarok, sound
notifications in KNotify and from Kaffeine when trying to play dvd).

The bug was already analysed by the kde team:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347917

Current solution is as follows:
* remove phonon-backend-vlc or
* remove libvlccore7 and break phonon-backend-vlc dependency.

Neither of that solutions seems to be ok for me. I think that it shouldn't even
go so far - I should have got a conflict during an installation of some of the
affected packages (libvlccore8 and libvlccore7 or phonon-backend-vlc and
libvlccore8 or something like that).
Also if it is not solved as a conflict, then if phonon-backend-vlc is removed,
then possibly some of the codecs will not be available to the KDE system.
The second solution seems to be the best for me if it works as I expect
(phonon-backend-vlc should be able to use the libvlccore8 provided by the
packman team, but it would be better to get the option automatically - not by
accepting broken dependencies for phonon-backend-vlc by removing libvlccore7)


I'm not sure how to contact the packman guys, cause one of the most resolutions
could be the phonon-backend-vlc package provided by the packman team (not sure
whether it is the best solution).

Another solution could be to modify dependencies of the phonon-backend-vlc so,
that the libvlccore8 provided by the packman repository also could satisfy
phonon-backend-vlc requirements.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install phonon-backend-vlc and vlc from packman repository
2. Start amarok
3. Crash
Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Conflict by installation in the software management


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