gxine won't work

falcon_za · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:07 am Post subject: gxine won't work

i emerge gxine in the most standart way, on a generaly healthy system with sane cflags. but if I start it up, it ony shows its splash screen, and freeze. kill-9 is the only way out.

when I lauch it from a terminal, here are the error messages displayed:

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falcon_za · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

tried to rebuild gxine, xine-lib, and gnome-vfs (because of the error message sugesstion it may have some something to do with it).

doesn't make a difference

GeneW

Someone had the same issue last week https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-283605.html and it looks like there is a bug report too: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70391.

I added "media-video/gxine ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords and re-emerged gxine and now it seems to work although I'm not usually a big fan of emerging "masked" packages.

falcon_za · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

I gave a try to the ~x86 version of gxine. It crashes instead of freezing. Not really sure that it is an improvement.
For the ~x86 version, I won't complain. It is masked, so that's not surprising.

But for the non masked one, I hope it is an error on my side. I'll check if there are older builds, that might work. In the meanwhile, if anyone has an idea, always welcome.

neonknight · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

Create a symlink named /usr/lib/libgnomevfs.so.0 pointing to your current version of libgnomevfs.so (in my case it's /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0.800.3). This solves your problem with the stable version of gxine. The ~x86 version crashes with a segfault on my system...

falcon_za · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

I'll try that simlink solution in a minute. but I think it is a bit dirty. Is there a bug posted about this? I don't really know how to use bugzilla, either for searching or posting a new bug. If you know how this work, I think it may be a good idea to post that bug. Otherwise i'll look for it.

neonknight · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject:

You need that symlink because some update of gnome-vfs has moved libgnomevfs.so.0, but the new file seems to have an unchanged API. So this is imho a compatiblity bug in gnome-vfs, not a bug in gxine...

falcon_za · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

whose ever bug it is, I'd rather see it fixed. Wether the mistakes comes from gnome, gxine, or the ebuild maintainer, someone sould handled this. Don't you think so?

falcon_za · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

I tried to simlink the lib. So, I don't have that "lib not found" error, but it still freezes on startup. without error message, this time. rebuilding it makes no difference.