xmms wont launch - repost

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

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

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

come on someone

ultrasonic · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

What happens if you mv your ~/.xmms to xmms say and re-launch ?

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

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

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

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.

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

that didn't work either

Am I going to have to reinstall?

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

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.