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.)
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