Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Hi Everyone, Firstly, I'll like to wish everybody here a sincerely Happy New Year for 2009 and all Yuletide Seasons Greetings *BIG HAPPY SMILE!!!* Okay.. here's my problem. I'm using Linux Mint Operating System I think that its great!!! I also use Amarok music player and I have a lot of music files which I've 'ripped' from my music cds which I own. I returned home yesterday afternoon (3rd January 2009) from having a great holiday with my mum dad in Victor Harbour, South Australia. My dad has a new computer system and he uses M$ Windowz XP Professional OS. He's having quite a few problems with it -- but I've tried to help him. *SMILE* Anyway... last night I switched on my computer and started Amarok (latest version, I think). And I had my computer play music thru' my Dell brand 2 x speakers and harmon/kardon sub-woofer (which I have from my old Dell computer I purchased many years ago). I was succesfully able to play music thru my speakers and subwoofer... while I was in bed sleeping. It was very pleasant!!! :-))) However, Amarok had some message about not being about to do something because dcopserver was not there!?!?!? Question: What Do I need to do on my computer to make Amarok work again? This morning (Sunday, 4th Jan 2009) I rebooted my pc a few times... then I rebooted into the recovery mode. And fixed some things. It seemed to improve some things. I then used the menu on the screen System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager and I think I found the correct files to install the dcopserver and also some files for Amarok's libvisual thing! I then let Synaptic Package Manager do it's thing... And it downloaded and installed something! (I don't really understand what!) Anyway I've switched off my pc and rebooted it etc. Now when I try to start Amarok it does not start and I get a window with the following error message: Amarok Error Message DCOP communications error (Amarok) There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not open network socket Please check that the dcopsever program is running! [OK] button nb - I will happily provide extra 'system specs' or details if requested... but I'll admit that I don't really understand what type of computer it is. I know that it is quite new and I really like my pc... but I don't really understand what processor speed or whatever it has!!! :-) It's rate myself as still a beginner at learning and using Linux Ubuntu Mint OS -- even thro' I've been using Linux Mint since sometime last year. also... I don't like using the 'terminal' console command ... because it's new and I don't really understand how it works. *SMILE* I'll use the terminal command line when I need to... but I don't really like it :-) *Yours PEW -- a little bit baffled as to why my favourite music player, Amarok, is not working!!! *SMILE* * *from North Hobart, Tasmania. * -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Fwd: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
To Mr Terry Mrs Kath Martin (in Tasmania)
and the Ubuntu Linux Yahoo Group.
Hello Ubuntu people :-)))
I'm forwarding (below) a message I sent to the Australian Ubuntu e-mail list
and friends of mine, Terry Kath. Maybe someone else is having this problem
(I have seen some messages on the Linux Mint forum about people having the
same problem -- however I could not make any sense of the reply messages!!!
;-)
If someone knows how I could fix this problem; would you please be kind
enough to *provide step-by-step instructions*... as, although I do know a
lot about computers, I still regard myself as a Ubuntu Mint beginner -- and
I am a little concerned about stuffing up my computer and not making it work
properly... which has happening to me in the past.
Fond Regards and I Wish EveryOne and All a Sincerely Happy and prosperous
New Year for 2009 !!! *BIG SMILE*
With Love,
PEW { poet, creative computer user, self-publisher and Christian !!! }
***SMILE***
{ I believe that the 'proverbial glass' is half-full, not half-empty!!! }
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Peter Williams pew...@gmail.com
Date: 2009/1/4
Subject: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Hi Everyone,
Firstly, I'll like to wish everybody here a sincerely Happy New Year for
2009 and all Yuletide Seasons Greetings *BIG HAPPY SMILE!!!*
Okay.. here's my problem. I'm using Linux Mint Operating System I think
that its great!!! I also use Amarok music player and I have a lot of music
files which I've 'ripped' from my music cds which I own. I returned home
yesterday afternoon (3rd January 2009) from having a great holiday with my
mum dad in Victor Harbour, South Australia.
My dad has a new computer system and he uses M$ Windowz XP Professional OS.
He's having quite a few problems with it -- but I've tried to help him.
*SMILE*
Anyway... last night I switched on my computer and started Amarok (latest
version, I think). And I had my computer play music thru' my Dell brand 2 x
speakers and harmon/kardon sub-woofer (which I have from my old Dell
computer I purchased many years ago).
I was succesfully able to play music thru my speakers and subwoofer... while
I was in bed sleeping. It was very pleasant!!! :-)))
However, Amarok had some message about not being about to do something
because dcopserver was not there!?!?!?
Question: What Do I need to do on my computer to make Amarok work again?
This morning (Sunday, 4th Jan 2009) I rebooted my pc a few times... then I
rebooted into the recovery mode. And fixed some things. It seemed to improve
some things.
I then used the menu on the screen System / Administration / Synaptic
Package Manager and I think I found the correct files to install the
dcopserver and also some files for Amarok's libvisual thing! I then let
Synaptic Package Manager do it's thing... And it downloaded and installed
something! (I don't really understand what!)
Anyway I've switched off my pc and rebooted it etc.
Now when I try to start Amarok it does not start and I get a window with the
following error message:
Amarok Error Message
DCOP communications error (Amarok)
There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The
message returned by the system was:
Could not open network socket
Please check that the dcopsever program is running!
[OK] button
nb - I will happily provide extra 'system specs' or details if requested...
but I'll admit that I don't really understand what type of computer it is. I
know that it is quite new and I really like my pc... but I don't really
understand what processor speed or whatever it has!!! :-)
It's rate myself as still a beginner at learning and using Linux Ubuntu Mint
OS -- even thro' I've been using Linux Mint since sometime last year.
also... I don't like using the 'terminal' console command ... because it's
new and I don't really understand how it works. *SMILE* I'll use the
terminal command line when I need to... but I don't really like it :-)
*Yours PEW -- a little bit baffled as to why my favourite music player,
Amarok, is not working!!! *SMILE*
*
*from North Hobart, Tasmania.
*
--
Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or)
http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
(please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
--
Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or)
http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
(please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
--
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'Create a USB startup disk' killed my memory stick
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SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Hi Fellow Ubuntu Folk :-))) Just a quickie to say... I've fixed my problems with Amarok music player also some other problems too. ### Problem SOLVED !!! ### I ended up doing lots of things... I'm not exactly sure which thing I did actually worked !!! *SMILE* One thing I did was to reboot to a Gnome terminal shell (not sure if that's exactly the correct term). And I used the command (which I found one a Ubuntu help website) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restartsudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart Then I discovered that the repositories were wrong!!! The were pointing to Ubuntu repositories instead of Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) ones. I used the Package Manager to change them to Mint one's. Actually I managed get them all wrong! E.g I had Mint 8 Repositories in the Package Manager... but they were not correct. SO ... I reboots and chose the Mint Recovery mode. And I then chose all 3 options for fixing problems!!! One of the boot up recovery options was to fix the broken repositories... and I did that. To my great happiness (poor wording, I know!!!) - my Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) OS is now working almost perfectly!!! *BIG SMILE HAPPY GRIN**!!! So now Ubuntu Amarok seems to work fine! Yours with Love, PEW signing off from North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 2009/1/4 Peter Williams pew...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, Firstly, I'll like to wish everybody here a sincerely Happy New Year for 2009 and all Yuletide Seasons Greetings *BIG HAPPY SMILE!!!* Okay.. here's my problem. I'm using Linux Mint Operating System I think that its great!!! I also use Amarok music player and I have a lot of music files which I've 'ripped' from my music cds which I own. I returned home yesterday afternoon (3rd January 2009) from having a great holiday with my mum dad in Victor Harbour, South Australia. My dad has a new computer system and he uses M$ Windowz XP Professional OS. He's having quite a few problems with it -- but I've tried to help him. *SMILE* Anyway... last night I switched on my computer and started Amarok (latest version, I think). And I had my computer play music thru' my Dell brand 2 x speakers and harmon/kardon sub-woofer (which I have from my old Dell computer I purchased many years ago). I was succesfully able to play music thru my speakers and subwoofer... while I was in bed sleeping. It was very pleasant!!! :-))) However, Amarok had some message about not being about to do something because dcopserver was not there!?!?!? Question: What Do I need to do on my computer to make Amarok work again? This morning (Sunday, 4th Jan 2009) I rebooted my pc a few times... then I rebooted into the recovery mode. And fixed some things. It seemed to improve some things. I then used the menu on the screen System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager and I think I found the correct files to install the dcopserver and also some files for Amarok's libvisual thing! I then let Synaptic Package Manager do it's thing... And it downloaded and installed something! (I don't really understand what!) Anyway I've switched off my pc and rebooted it etc. Now when I try to start Amarok it does not start and I get a window with the following error message: Amarok Error Message DCOP communications error (Amarok) There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not open network socket Please check that the dcopsever program is running! [OK] button nb - I will happily provide extra 'system specs' or details if requested... but I'll admit that I don't really understand what type of computer it is. I know that it is quite new and I really like my pc... but I don't really understand what processor speed or whatever it has!!! :-) It's rate myself as still a beginner at learning and using Linux Ubuntu Mint OS -- even thro' I've been using Linux Mint since sometime last year. also... I don't like using the 'terminal' console command ... because it's new and I don't really understand how it works. *SMILE* I'll use the terminal command line when I need to... but I don't really like it :-) *Yours PEW -- a little bit baffled as to why my favourite music player, Amarok, is not working!!! *SMILE* * *from North Hobart, Tasmania. * -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Hi Peter, Peter Williams wrote: To my great happiness (poor wording, I know!!!) - my Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) OS is now working almost perfectly!!! *BIG SMILE HAPPY GRIN**!!! Well done. Can you please not refer to Mint Linux as Ubuntu Mint. Mint and Ubuntu are two separate projects with their own developers, forums and mailing lists. We are all in the same big happy open source family but there are issues of branding and trademark. The Ubuntu trademark is owned by Canonical and I am sure they would not want it to be diluted. I am sure the Mint people are proud of their work and feel the same. Then I discovered that the repositories were wrong!!! The were pointing to Ubuntu repositories instead of Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) ones. I don't know if this is a consequence of not understanding that Ubuntu and Mint are two separate projects. I had a Ford made by Mazda. You could probably replace suspension and engine parts with Mazda parts but other would have been to Ford specs. A person in that situation might ask about after market accessories on a Mazda forum and get friendly and useful advice but might also get completely misleading advice if Ford had changed the spec on some parts. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
