gaim not starting

MOS-FET · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 4:41 pm Post subject: gaim not starting

didn't know where else to put this ... i had gaim 0.63 running for a while now with no problems, but now suddenly it doesn't work anymore! i aready tried to unmerge and re-emerge gaim and all it's dependencies, but nothing! when i click the gaim icon or start it somehoe else, i see a gaim entry in the window list for a few seconds, but then nothing happens. damn! i neeeed gaim!! can anyone help please?

wrynn · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

Could you post the output when you run it from an xterm (add the -d option for debugging info). It might be helpful. :wink:

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Roxxor · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject:

1) unmerge gaim
2) edit make.conf and type in the USE-section: USE="... -gnome" (with a - (minus))
3) emerge gaim
4) edit make.conf and type in the USE-section: USE="... gnome" (without a - (minus)).

MOS-FET · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: gaim debug

starting gaim from xterm with -d shows the following:

prefs: Reading /home/.gaim/prefs.xml
prefs: Finished reading /home/.gaim/prefs.xml
gaimrc: Loading preferences.
gaimrc: start load_prefs
gaimrc: starting read tag 0
gaimrc: ending read tag 0
gaimrc: starting read tag 1
sound: Initializing sound output drivers.

then nothing happens, i'm not being returned to bash. seems like it hangs when initializing sound? i'm using arts+alsa. the only thing i think is strange that on startup, when the alsa-driver (intel8x0) is started, there's a errmsg "-e error: alsactl not found" (i don't remember exactly, but it means this). sound works fine anyway, so i've ignored this error so far. i'm using gaim with kde3 by the way, i have -gnome in my USE variable.

Roxxor · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: gaim debug

MOS-FET · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject:

but why should i set back gnome AFTER the emerge? i'm not using gnome, and i always had -gnome in my make.conf and gaim was working so far until yesterday. well, i'll try it anyway :-)

|Spiller| · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: you may wanna try..

I had the same issue, until I realized that I had xmms on eveytime I tried to start gaim and it would wait at that same sound init line. If you turn off xmms it will start as usual (I guess this is a bug maybe?)

Roxxor · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject:

I´m totaly wrong. :roll:

Think I was to tired when I read your problem.
Thought you had problem with the gnome-panel.

Well, did it just stop working? Maybe it has with your sound drivers to do.
Try to recompile your kernel. It takes just 20 minutes. :wink:

MOS-FET · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject:

well now i just went into the kde control center, turned artsd off and - surprise - suddenly gaim came up ... so it seems gaim and artsd don't like each other. is there a fix for that? i can't always turn off artsd when i want to use gaim!

MOS-FET · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject:

another question ... i'm using kde3 in german, but all gtk apps (gaim, lmule, grip...) are in english only, although i know from my previous mandrake that they also have german locales. how do i manage to make them appear in german?

b1nd3n14l · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

I had to use
artsdsp gaim

I think gaim is trying to access /dev/dsp directly when kde has it locked because of artsd
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