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edudlive Guru
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject: xmms wont launch - repost |
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Originally posted in Other things Gentoo, but then I realized it should be here.
Ok, XMMS just FROZE today and never would work again.
I've emerged and unmerged it...and emerged again. (that was 1.2.8-r4) and I've tried 1.2.10
NONE WORK
They won't even launch.
This happened after I loaded about 1600 MP3s at once.
bash-2.05b$ xmms
xmms: relocation error: xmms: undefined symbol: autocharset_list
^^ is what I get when trying to launch from console |
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edudlive Guru
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:26 am Post subject: |
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edudlive Guru
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edudlive Guru
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:42 am Post subject: |
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come on someone |
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ultrasonic n00b
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: |
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What happens if you mv your ~/.xmms to xmms say and re-launch ? |
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mike4148 l33t
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Are you using prelink? Have you checked your filesystems lately?
That symbol is in the static library xmms builds with (libxmms.a). There shouldn't be any relocation involved, because it's not a "dynamic lib"/shared object. Try removing everything in /var/tmp/portage/ and reemerging xmms again. If you're using ccache or distcc, don't.
How badly frozen was XMMS? If the whole PC froze, forcing you to do some kind of hard restart, then it's likely that this is a filesystem corruption problem. Search for 'filesystem corruption' here to view countless topics on it. You'll probably end up booting into a LiveCD and running fsck.your-filesystem-here your-root-device-here. For example, I would use
Code: | fsck.reiserfs /dev/sda2 |
to check my ReiserFS root partition, which is the 2nd primary partition on my SATA disk (I don't have any swap).
If XMMS did freeze like that, it's virtually impossible for it to have anything to do with XMMS itself - it was probably just a coincidence (at the worst, maybe having all of the MP3's at once was causing an unusual amount of disk load, which triggered some inconsistency along the input path between your hard disk and RAM). |
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edudlive Guru
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:17 am Post subject: |
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No, didn't require hard restart. Just XMMS froze, used "killall" to get it off screen.
Anything special I need to do since it was like that? I'll try the clearing tmp ASAP, thanks. |
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edudlive Guru
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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that didn't work either
Am I going to have to reinstall? |
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mike4148 l33t
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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What have you emerged since xmms worked?
If you haven't emerged anything significant (other than the versions of xmms, of course), my only guess is that xmms is still trying to load that playlist, which is overflowing some buffer that leads to the strange error message. In which case, ultrasonic's suggestion should have worked. If you haven't tried that yet, do it (just rename your .xmms folder to anything other than .xmms; this will force xmms to launch with 100% default settings).
Reinstalling your entire system just to get one little app working is insane (no offense ). If I were you (and ultrasonic's suggestion didn't work), I would emerge -C xmms and find / -name xmms to hunt down any stray libraries lying around. It's possible that the xmms emerge is linking with some stale library (maybe from an install of xmms outside the portage system?).... It's extremely unlikely, however, assuming that your description of the problem is accurate (overloaded the playlist, app froze, killed app, error message ever since).
In the meantime, use something else -- xmms is not the only nice multimedia player out there. You can survive with a different app while you try to figure out what's wrong with xmms. If you don't want to figure it out, you probably shouldn't be using Linux. If you find that numerous programs are giving similar errors all of a sudden, then it's time to take the easy way out and reinstall. |
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