Is anyone else getting this VLC clash while updating to most recent bits?

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I think a rollback is an idea in your case.

As soon as they release a new deployment with the changes, you can upgrade again.

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Thanks! I saw there are a couple of critical security updates pending making me a bit uneasy to not update, but I’ll do a rollback for now and wait for the new deployment.

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At https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=32055 you can find an rpm to download. If you uninstall vlc-plugins-freeworld, you can do a normal update. Then you can install the downloaded rpm file from rpmfusion.

At least, that works on normal Workstations, but I can’t tell if it works on Silverblue as well. It is also possible that for your case you don’t need vlc-plugins-freeworld. It may also be worthwhile to consider installing the vlc flatpak from the flathub repository.

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Same issue on Fedora Silverblue here:

rpm-ostree upgrade
note: automatic updates (stage) are enabled
2 metadata, 0 content objects fetched; 788 B transferred in 1 seconds; 0 Bytes content written
Checking out tree 5447b08... done
Inactive requests:
  nvme-cli (already provided by nvme-cli-2.13-1.fc42.x86_64)
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora rpmfusion-free fedora-cisco-openh264 updates rpmfusion-free-updates updates-archive
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2025-04-09T11:06:59Z solvables: 76879
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free' (cached); generated: 2025-04-12T09:12:27Z solvables: 358
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2025-03-19T16:53:39Z solvables: 6
rpm-md repo 'updates' (cached); generated: 2025-06-30T02:16:41Z solvables: 18070
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free-updates' (cached); generated: 2025-06-23T20:10:50Z solvables: 75
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive' (cached); generated: 2025-06-30T02:39:05Z solvables: 24026
Resolving dependencies... done
Applying 1 override and 270 overlays
Processing packages... done
error: Checkout vlc-plugins-freeworld-3.0.21-4.fc42.x86_64: Hardlinking 9e/44ffe7ab4bc990352caba6cf0a6a8c32a1dd9d80cdc7aa5a05c72a954bb937.file to libfaad_plugin.so: Die Datei existiert bereits

Aka libfaad_plugin.so already exists.

rpm-ostree status   
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.service: last run failed
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/42/x86_64/silverblue
                  Version: 42.20250616.0 (2025-06-16T01:23:48Z)
               BaseCommit: b4e3d94d084834d874fdb655981a5458f943ad8472c64c119ae52a082b17e504
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by B0F4950458F69E1150C6C5EDC8AC4916105EF944
      RemovedBasePackages: noopenh264 2.5.0-2.fc42
          LayeredPackages: *** gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 *** libavcodec-freeworld *** pipewire-codec-aptx *** rpmfusion-free-release ***

  fedora:fedora/42/x86_64/silverblue
                  Version: 42.20250608.0 (2025-06-08T00:37:31Z)
               BaseCommit: 72f75d54a4251ed924dd11d6583ea840bf15d2f967ea62e9dcb654c2ec33d286
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by B0F4950458F69E1150C6C5EDC8AC4916105EF944
      RemovedBasePackages: noopenh264 2.5.0-2.fc42
          LayeredPackages: *** gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 *** libavcodec-freeworld *** pipewire-codec-aptx *** rpmfusion-free-release ***

AvailableUpdate:
        Version: 42.20250630.0 (2025-06-30T01:53:19Z)
         Commit: 5447b08447271bf3dbec2a199b8cea5bd60531a055a65cca33bcd442427eddf7
   GPGSignature: Valid signature by B0F4950458F69E1150C6C5EDC8AC4916105EF944
  SecAdvisories: 1 low, 3 moderate, 1 important, 3 critical
           Diff: 230 upgraded, 1 removed, 2 added

While a rollback (or to just boot into the old version) is likely possible, it’s only useful when a fix has been released, so one can directly upgrade to the latest version, afterwards.

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Enabling the rpmfusion-free-updates-testing repo made the update go through now. Thanks!

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How long does it usually take for a package to go from the testing to the main repositories?

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I got some kind of error with VLC but didn’t pay much attention to it because 1) it didn’t effect me [I don’t really use vlc or need to play videos outside browser much] & 2) because I was messing with jackd & stuff trying to figure out how to get guitarix working…

But yeah I think it happened around the time I did an dnf update --refresh & it upgraded a bunch of major stuff.. idk like a week ago?

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VLC is a resource hog and does not play well with other apps. If I’m watching a video with VLC on one monitor and web surfing on the other monitor, issues often arise and occasionally the browser (both Firefox and Brave) will slow to a crawl or even crash.

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Got same issue while updating my sistem, waiting for a fix.

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Previously you would need to enable the testing repos from RPM Fusion as posted above by @leigh123linux. However it looks like they were pushed to the regular RPM Fusion update repos between when you posted and I just looked now.

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Worked for me now. Had to first do sudo dnf clean all followed by sudo dnf update

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It seems that the repo push with the fix hit my system, since I was able to reinstall VLC without issues this morning.

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