19.10 from beta to release

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sorry for the blurry second photo - it literally was on screen for an instant. I’ll try a reinstall and see if it’s hardware failure or the OS.

Ubuntu Canonical has installed/rebooted w update and rebooted again flawlessly. I installed a theme to make me happy (https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1275087/) as I did on Ubuntu Budgie, and seems to have taken. I’ll try a new install of Ubuntu Budgie again.

Would an installed theme crash this system? I installed the gnome theme again
and it seemed to work the first time, worked on Ubuntu, and the white screen with sad face again.
I confirm: This theme crashes Ubuntu Budgie 19.10

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ok - think I understand the issue now - its due to you have both gnome-shell and budgie-desktop installed.

I’ve thrown a bug-fix and hopefully it will be accepted soon. Will keep you informed.

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Sorry, I was using Gnome Shell AND Budgie? I was unaware I was mixing the two – I’d just as soon keep my Budgie desktop stable. I was under the impression Budgie was a buttery smooth veneer of awesomeness over a partial Gnome base. I will do my best to keep them a bit more separated in the future. I am using the very same mac-looking gnome theme/extension on a different laptop with 19.04 with great success. Should I uninstall that gnome theme before everything undates to 19.10 naturally?

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Bug fix has now been released - it will take a while for the mirrors to pick up - but just update as normal and you should see the update come down the wires.

Themes will not affect updates so no need to worry.

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19.10 fresh install with 1 issue outstanding that I have not found an answer to.

Both smplayer and vlc take half a minute to start (gnome mvp works perfectly but lacks some options for me) for EVERY file I open with them. No errors or warning when started from command line. No notices in syslog or kern.log. Like it is indexing something. Also happens when opening vlc or smplayer from the menu (so w/o a file to play).

Not sure how to investigate since all normal locations come up blank.

mplayer log file

/usr/bin/mpv --no-config --no-quiet --terminal --no-msg-color --input-file=/dev/stdin --no-fs --hwdec=no --sub-auto=fuzzy --no-input-default-bindings --input-vo-keyboard=no --no-input-cursor --cursor-autohide=no --no-keepaspect --wid=71303188 --monitorpixelaspect=1 --osd-level=1 --osd-scale=1 --osd-bar-align-y=0.6 --sub-ass --embeddedfonts --sub-ass-line-spacing=0 --sub-scale=1 --sub-font=Arial --sub-color=#ffffffff --sub-shadow-color=#ff000000 --sub-border-color=#ff000000 --sub-border-size=0.75 --sub-shadow-offset=2.5 --sub-font-size=50 --sub-bold=no --sub-italic=no --sub-codepage=ISO-8859-1 --vid=1 --sid=1 --sub-pos=99 --volume=110 --cache=auto --start=19 --audio-pitch-correction=yes --volume-max=110 --term-playing-msg=MPV_VERSION={=mpv-version:} INFO_VIDEO_WIDTH={=width}
INFO_VIDEO_HEIGHT={=height} INFO_VIDEO_ASPECT={=video-aspect}
INFO_VIDEO_FPS={=container-fps:{=fps}}
INFO_VIDEO_FORMAT={=video-format} INFO_VIDEO_CODEC={=video-codec}
INFO_AUDIO_FORMAT={=audio-codec-name} INFO_AUDIO_CODEC={=audio-codec}
INFO_AUDIO_RATE={=audio-params/samplerate} INFO_AUDIO_NCH={=audio-params/channel-count}
INFO_LENGTH={=duration:{=length}}
INFO_DEMUXER={=current-demuxer:{=demuxer}}
INFO_SEEKABLE={=seekable} INFO_TITLES={=disc-titles}
INFO_CHAPTERS={=chapters} INFO_TRACKS_COUNT={=track-list/count}
METADATA_TITLE={metadata/by-key/title:} METADATA_ARTIST={metadata/by-key/artist:}
METADATA_ALBUM={metadata/by-key/album:} METADATA_GENRE={metadata/by-key/genre:}
METADATA_DATE={metadata/by-key/date:} METADATA_TRACK={metadata/by-key/track:}
METADATA_COPYRIGHT={metadata/by-key/copyright:} INFO_MEDIA_TITLE={=media-title:}
INFO_STREAM_PATH={stream-path} --audio-client-name=SMPlayer --term-status-msg=STATUS: {=time-pos} / {=duration:{=length:0}} P: {=pause} B: {=paused-for-cache} I: {=core-idle} VB: {=video-bitrate:0} AB: ${=audio-bitrate:0} /discworld/Desktop/Bem - 11 .mkv

Playing: /discworld/Desktop/Bem - 11 .mkv
(+) Video --vid=1 () (h264 1920x1080 23.976fps)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=jpn () (aac 2ch 48000Hz)
(+) Subs --sid=1 --slang=eng (*) (ass)
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 yuv420p
INFO_VIDEO_DSIZE=1920x1080
MPV_VERSION=mpv 0.29.1
INFO_VIDEO_WIDTH=1920
INFO_VIDEO_HEIGHT=1080
INFO_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.777778
INFO_VIDEO_FPS=23.976025
INFO_VIDEO_FORMAT=h264
INFO_VIDEO_CODEC=h264 (H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10)
INFO_AUDIO_FORMAT=aac
INFO_AUDIO_CODEC=aac (AAC (Advanced Audio Coding))
INFO_AUDIO_RATE=48000
INFO_AUDIO_NCH=2
INFO_LENGTH=1445.546000
INFO_DEMUXER=mkv
INFO_SEEKABLE=yes
INFO_TITLES=
INFO_CHAPTERS=0
INFO_TRACKS_COUNT=3
METADATA_TITLE=
METADATA_ARTIST=
METADATA_ALBUM=
METADATA_GENRE=
METADATA_DATE=
METADATA_TRACK=
METADATA_COPYRIGHT=
INFO_MEDIA_TITLE=Bem - 11 .mkv
INFO_STREAM_PATH=/discworld/Desktop/Bem - 11 .mkv

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Rinzwind, did you install the media codec extras? It could be VLC is using it’s own codecs rather than installed ones, slowing the process down?

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Only the codecs you select prior to install (the checkbox).
It all plays well just takes long to load :frowning:

wtf. problem solved itself. videos currently open correctly.

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the budgie welcome window has a browser ballot, and an extras installer as well. It has an installer specific to extra codecs, perhaps it’s the same

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Having trouble with the global menu and Firefox. The panel ends up freezing and crashing or Firefox ends up freezing and in either case the cpu goes to 100 % . I’ve checked this with htop. I can stop the problem by removing the applet. Chromium based browsers are not a problem. Can someone try and duplicate this behavior please ?

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Using a fully up-to-date UB install - cannot reproduce this issue.

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I havent got a fresh install - but no issues here with vlc - opens instantly.

Once the first release candidate is published this weekend I’m going to-do a fresh install to see if I can reproduce this vlc slow start issue - also @Frogshair global menu issue.

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I’ve been updating this installation since July 14 so I’ll wait until the final release and try a clean installation. My default browser is working fine. I’ll be waiting for the first 20.04 daily build for one machine anyway. Thanks !

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I installed gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 and this appears to make vlc startup fast. Guess this is a packaging issue - suggest ubuntu-bug vlc to add this as a recommended package