Package: timidity Followup-For: Bug #335295
Honorable timiditians, the new error message is better: % /etc/init.d/timidity start Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation: /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg: No such file or directory timidity: Error reading configuration file. Please check /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg (failed). Still, the phrase "Error reading configuration file" is a trifle vague, (the verb 'reading' seems needless), it might mean: 1) a file system corruption prevents a file read. 2) a syntax error in some config file. 3) a particular setting in a config file caused the error. In my case I'm sure the answer is #3, but "Aunt Tillie" wouldn't know what to think. Suggested revision, which shows the filename and line number that confused 'timidity', followed by the resulting error: timidity: config file error /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg: 33: source /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg No such file or directory as /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg ...or something like that. HTH... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages timidity depends on: ii libartsc0 1.5.5-1 aRts sound system C support librar ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libaudio2 1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libflac7 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjack0.100.0-0 0.101.1-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library ii liboggflac3 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libvorbis0a 1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-6 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages timidity recommends: pn freepats <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]