Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> Ludovic—
>
> Je 21 nov 14:21 transskribita far Ludovic Courtès:
>> Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> skribis:
>> 
>> > $ kodi
>> > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  
>> 
>> Guix’s ‘mesa’ package does not provide this specific shared object under
>> lib/vdpau, so there might be some interference with the host distro.
>> 
>> What happens if you run: [...]
>
> kodi@watson ~$ guix environment --pure --ad-hoc kodi -- kodi
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivations will be built:
>    /gnu/store/6gh05g6i9i5wwriwijmi1hcvlb2f52ff-profile.drv
>    /gnu/store/hnd63cfgpf41y04jgrk56g2lb7y1nrby-xdg-desktop-database.drv
>    /gnu/store/bq2m3cx2m93zc77b3zivlqkgdw9p9l36-xdg-mime-database.drv
>    /gnu/store/6lvwvnnyfc3911hsjkrnd2bnh0a3m60n-fonts-dir.drv
>    /gnu/store/6fn12y0ja1wgpw44r00aixd0jsx7mpnr-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
>    /gnu/store/2642kkskcfhzwib8pxzzwhiiw94hwhd3-info-dir.drv
>    /gnu/store/lrl1a0w7hf279ybm319rmyznvl2svpmw-manual-database.drv
> Creating manual page database for 0 packages... done in 0.075 s
> /gnu/store/w0b172fsjp2a786zjr69fm4zhjhs76hb-profile/bin/kodi: line 66: grep: command not found
> /gnu/store/w0b172fsjp2a786zjr69fm4zhjhs76hb-profile/bin/kodi: line 88: basename: command not found
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> /gnu/store/w0b172fsjp2a786zjr69fm4zhjhs76hb-profile/bin/kodi: line 208:   610 Segmentation fault      ${KODI_BINARY} $SAVED_ARGS

I wonder why this only started happening recently.  Can you post the
output of `guix package -l` so we can see what changed between the
working and non-working profile?

Which graphics hardware are you on?  Does video acceleration work in
other programs such as "mpv" or IceCat?