Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Hi,
I am not sure if you are aware that linux.conf.au will be in Hobart
later this month. This is one of the best Linux conferences around -
although it is quite technical.
If you can't afford the time (or ticket price) you should try to make
it along to the openday - see
http://linux.conf.au/programme/about_programme#OpenDay
I am not sure about the Mint crew, but there will be people from
Australian Ubuntu community. There will also be other projects and
distros represented at the open day. It might be a good chance for you
to meet some more local Linux geeks.
Cheers
Dave
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:43 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
Hello Everyone (I'm doing a reply to all - for this email) *SMILE*
thank you Paul, for your nice email. *GRIN*
2009/1/4 Paul Shirren shi...@shirro.com
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.
Okay, I will try to keep that in mind and refer to my OS by its
correct name; Mint Linux.
I get quite a bit confused about its correct name. I think that the
Mint Linux ppl also call it Ubuntu Mint Linux etc etc. :-) There seems
to be quite a lot of jargon buzz-words etc involved for the OS { Not
that I'm objecting! SMILE }. Also, I find that the sheer volume of
information and facts, knowledge and 'wisdom' of the Gurus developing
the Mint Linux project -- well, it's information overload!! Too much
for me to know where to begin looking. *SIGH*
Note: I'm still only a Linux Newbie although I've used many many
different computer systems over my life... since I was a young
teenager (or even younger!). Our family's first computer was a
Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with 16 KB of RAM
expandable to 32KB RAM. Actually, it was a pretty good machine -- it
had a 6502 processor and it communicated with peripherals with a
IEEE-488 port and also had a programmable 'user port' !!! It was
amazing!!! And also very powerful. Actually, it's OS was Commodore PET
BASIC which was written by Micro$oft! and was a combination of BASIC
programming language with DOS commands included also!!! It was
powerful but it bit tricky to learn!!! [ THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!! -
e.g. circa the 1970's ]
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.
Thank you for explaining that. I'm very very pleased with my OS -
although it still has its little querks (spelling?!). The nice people
at Canonical are amazingly clever and I admire and thank them ###
HAPPY GRIN ###
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.
Yes, it probably is!!! (SMILE). I'll admit that I'm still a newbie
beginner at Mint Linux; although I'll admit that I've been 'learning'
Linux for more than one year!!! I'm just happy to get help from the
those wonderfully clever and friendly Linux users!!!
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.
That's an interesting analogy, and I think I understand. Thanks for
that. #SMILE#
Yours Sincerely,
PEW - poet, computer geek, amiable human being and Christian
--
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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Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Hi Dave and Everyone,
2009/1/7 Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com
Hi,
I am not sure if you are aware that linux.conf.au will be in Hobart
later this month. This is one of the best Linux conferences around -
although it is quite technical.
If you can't afford the time (or ticket price) you should try to make
it along to the openday - see
http://linux.conf.au/programme/about_programme#OpenDay
I went to the above mentioned link and found this webpage:
http://keysigning.org/event/lca2009
quote from the website
---
This keysigning will use the
'Sassaman-Projectedhttp://keysigning.org/methods/sassaman-projected'
method, which is well suited to large groups.
*Getting Ready*
To participate in the LCA 2009 keysigning you will need to submit your
public key prior to *2009-01-16 16:00:00*. NB: that's according to the
system time of this server, which is currently 2009-01-07 01:20:30. It's *
not* relative to your local time.
The simplest way to do this is to export your public key in ascii-armored
format and email it to 'lca2009-k...@keysigning.org'. On a typical Linux
system you can do this by typing:
gpg --export-options export-minimal --export -a *KeyID* | mail -s
keysigning lca2009-k...@keysigning.org
where *KeyID* is actually your unique key ID, something like '64011A8B'.
After your key has been processed and added to the event keyring you will
receive an email confirmation.
Further instructions will be posted here closer to the event.
*Keys accepted into the event keyring:* check this
listhttp://keysigning.org/keylist/lca2009.txtto see if your key has
been added. The list is updated in real time.
---
Now please bear in mind that I'm still a Mint Ubuntu newbie... I'm using
Gnome Desktop 2.22.3.
I eventually worked out that I needed to do was select the menu:
Applications / System Tools / Terminal Program - Super
I am not sure about the Mint crew, but there will be people from
Australian Ubuntu community. There will also be other projects and
distros represented at the open day. It might be a good chance for you
to meet some more local Linux geeks.
Cheers
Dave
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:43 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
Hello Everyone (I'm doing a reply to all - for this email) *SMILE*
thank you Paul, for your nice email. *GRIN*
2009/1/4 Paul Shirren shi...@shirro.com
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.
Okay, I will try to keep that in mind and refer to my OS by its
correct name; Mint Linux.
I get quite a bit confused about its correct name. I think that the
Mint Linux ppl also call it Ubuntu Mint Linux etc etc. :-) There seems
to be quite a lot of jargon buzz-words etc involved for the OS { Not
that I'm objecting! SMILE }. Also, I find that the sheer volume of
information and facts, knowledge and 'wisdom' of the Gurus developing
the Mint Linux project -- well, it's information overload!! Too much
for me to know where to begin looking. *SIGH*
Note: I'm still only a Linux Newbie although I've used many many
different computer systems over my life... since I was a young
teenager (or even younger!). Our family's first computer was a
Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with 16 KB of RAM
expandable to 32KB RAM. Actually, it was a pretty good machine -- it
had a 6502 processor and it communicated with peripherals with a
IEEE-488 port and also had a programmable 'user port' !!! It was
amazing!!! And also very powerful. Actually, it's OS was Commodore PET
BASIC which was written by Micro$oft! and was a combination of BASIC
programming language with DOS commands included also!!! It was
powerful but it bit tricky to learn!!! [ THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!! -
e.g. circa the 1970's ]
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.
Thank you for explaining that. I'm very very pleased with my OS -
although it still has its little querks (spelling?!). The nice people
at Canonical are amazingly clever and I admire and thank them ###
HAPPY GRIN ###
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
Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications
Peter Williams wrote: I went to the above mentioned link and found this webpage: http://keysigning.org/event/lca2009 Don't worry about the keysigning Peter. That is for developers attending the conference. The Open Day is on Saturday 24th January at the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay campus. It is free and open to the general public if you are interested. Still waiting for details on the start and finish time. When there is more info it will probably appear here: http://linux.conf.au/programme/open_day -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
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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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
