Re: [tlug] kdenlive not opening

[AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai <belxjander@example.com>]

If it isnt working after the "kill -9... " and re-installing after wiping it off...

Ibwould check *all* of the. so linkages...

one particular failure about GNU/Linux systems that is completely silent is when the ld.so dynamic linker buidl the runtime image in memory...

If it can not link the image completely (any single lib*.so being missing at all)

the dynamic linker will *silent* *fail* and nothing further will happen.

this is something I have personally dealt with on "compiled from source" systems.

so compiling from source is not an option to work-around the dynamic linker.

Ive had updates in the background cause problems and then I found this particular issue.

so you will also need to check beyond kdenlive to what it depends on as well.

even minor changes in the dependencies can trigger this.

Windows doesnt have this problem for load-time handling but it has its own variation of DLL hell that is equivalent with regards to " core driver"s that are essential.

Something to consider.

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, 11:02 Lyle H Saxon, <llletters@example.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM Bernie Innocenti <bernie@example.com> wrote:

Desktop apps often refuse to open when another instance is still
running. It might have closed all its windows, but the process is hung
on dbus or something.

I tried rebooting the machine.  I tried uninstalling Kdenlive and then reinstalling it, and I tried uninstalling it and installing an older version - all to no avail.

This is one of many issues which is magically cured by a reboot, but you
can also use "pgrep -l kdenlive" to confirm my theory and then "pkill
kdenlive" or even "pkill -9 kdenlive" to get rid of it.

I'll give that a try....

By the way, is your experience with Kdenlive generally positive? Which
version? Every time I tried doing some video editing on Linux I ran into
bugs, but I know the KDE devs have been hard at work to improve overall
stability and usability of their desktop and apps.

When I first tried it, I wasn't having much luck getting it to do what I needed, but after seeing a YouTube tutorial at this YouTube channel::
www.youtube.com/@victorianodejesus/videos

It became a very useful video editing tool.  The key thing for me is how individual clips can be edited in/from a left side panel, and everything left out of the timeline until the end, when things can be dropped down into the timeline by clicking on them (to highlight them) and then pressing the [V] key.  (You can drag them there with the mouse as well, but I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible.)

There are some conditions that will crash it, but I've found it to be (overall) been very useful.

- Lyle