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VLC is not working

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roberts:
Do you have dbus loaded and running. If not vlc will not start.

Jason W:
I am in the process of working a load and start of dbus.tcz if not already loaded/started into the startup scripts of scms that need it.  I would like to call on dbus.tcz in the startup script like we would kernel modules if needed rather than build it into each scm, which for dbus I have not had good results with.

roberts:
This could result in system breakage when only scms reply on dbus. As dbus is a tcz and would be under the control of tcz appsaudit and in such case would be a candidate for removal resulting in inoperable scms.

Jason W:
I guess we are in a bit of a dilemma, leaving the only option to use a self contained dbus installed into the scm and started by the start script, and would need to be stopped if the extension is to be unmounted otherwise the mount point is in use.  I will try to get that working, it is how Apple does it with their self contained packages so it should be doable. 

Jason W:
Being unfamiliar with dbus, I overlooked a simple solution, using "dbus-launch --exit-with-session vlc".  That loads dbus for the running session, and then dbus exits when the app exits.  Works with vlc, and no need to worry about a running process from within the scm that would interfere with unmounting the extension.   Each app needing dbus can contain it and run it's own session for only the app's session. 

 I will update vlc and transmission-gtk3 to this approach tonight.

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