Bug#794983: vlc does weird things with the .lock file

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 8 août 2015, 20:30:32 sacrificial-spam-address at horizon.com a écrit :
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.1-2+b2
> Architecture: i386
> Severity: minor
> 
> Somehow (it may have been a transient error caused by C++ ABI upgrades),
> I ended up with:
> 
> $ ls ~/.config/vlc/
> vlc-qt-interface.conf
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> ...
> vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.
> rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> .rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock.rmloc
> k.rmlock.rmlock.rmlock
> 
> and ended up with vlc stuck looping retrying

VLC is not accessing the file directly, and definitely not taking care of 
locking for it. It is the back-end to Qt's QSettings class.

This should probably be reassigned...

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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