Eddy Petriÿor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ãn data de Ma, 31-10-2006 la 14:12 +0200, Eddy PetriÅor a scris: >> Ãn data de Lu, 30-10-2006 la 20:28 +0100, Darren Salt a scris: >> > I demand that Eddy Petrisor may or may not have written... >> > >> > > Any attempt to view with gxine any avi file, it gives the following >> > > error and exits. This machine hass a fairly new Debian installation. >> > >> > > ------------8<------------ >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/bdtree/2.SP1/mail-smb/etc$ gxine >> > > Antena1_2300_03052006_Basescu\ si\ tehnologia.avi >> > > Creating link /home/eddy/.kde/socket-twix. >> > > can't create mcop directory >> > > ------------8<------------ >> > >> > I think that this is an arts problem. (Suffice to say that I don't use >> > arts, >> > and I don't see this message.) >> >> Although I agree that this looks like an arts problem, I am baffled >> since I have here a GNOME desktop, now a KDE one. This, IMHO, indicates >> a broken default value for at least one of the installed packages. > > I forgot to say, there no arts here: > $ LANG=C apt-cache policy arts > arts: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.5.5-1 > Version table: > 1.5.5-1 0 > 900 http://ftp.lug.ro etch/main Packages
This could in fact be the problem. My current diagnostic is that the arts plugin fails to load because the socket dir doesn't exist. In fact, in a GNOME environment, you don't want to load it anyway, so you actually *expect* it to fail. The problem seems to me that the failiure of the arts plugin crashes xine. And this is the actual bug. Creating the directory (and leaving it empty) seems to be a workaround for this problem. Cf. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354437 (already merged bug) -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
