VLC hangs if "control=notify" is set in vlcrc

VLC freezes upon startup and the only recourse is to kill it, if following line is set in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc:

control=notify:growl

It can be reproduces on Debian and Ubuntu and was reported on Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/662628

What kind of freeze? Segfault freeze? Deadlock freeze? Anything interesting in the messages log?

added Component::Interface: other plugins label

Deadlock freeze. No interesting message on the terminal if vlc is launched with -vvv.

Does it happen with growl alone?

assigned to @xtophe

changed milestone to %2.0.x maintenance bugs

No. It does happen with notify alone.

changed title from VLC hangs if "control=notify:growl" is set in vlcrc to VLC hangs if "control=notify" is set in vlcrc

Happens to me too on Kubuntu 12.04 with updates with backports to date. control=telepathy:notify
causes vlc to instafreeze without recovery and without further terminal output when I open any file, only sigkill gets rid of the process. When asked in IRC I got the advice to change the line to control=telepathy and everything is fine.

Original author: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=aitoawkkfym9sl4i_ocs6qga6q4hnyx2e4_flds

assigned to @Courmisch and unassigned @xtophe

changed milestone to %2.0.4

added Platform::GNU/Linux Status::fixed labels

closed

commit 1e5f4b46 Author: Rémi Denis-Courmont remi@remlab.net Date: Sun May 13 23:41:42 2012 +0300

Revert "Notify: add a callback to match telepathy, msn"

The "item-change" callback is called with the playlist lock held in
at least one case: when the now playing meta is cleared while a new
input is created by the playlist.

playlist_CurrentInput() acquires the playlist lock. So the
"item-change" callback cannot call it. This bug is present in the
Growl, MSN and Telepathy modules since version 1.0.0. It got copied
into Notify in version 2.0.0.

This reverts commit fc56b92af1636c53a0545109a74476fe74c054a5.
This should fix [#6641](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/6641).

Original author: remi@remlab.net