Democracy T.V

[nachos]

I know its a silly little program. But I continuously have problems with this program crashing on me. It will run for about 5 to 7 seconds, and then disappear. I never see it again. I am running sabayon Linux with KDE 3.5.6.
It even crashes when Beryl isn't running. Any and all help is appreciated.

[bigtomrodney]

Try launching it from the terminal - open konsole and launch democracyplayer. When it crashes post the output back here.

[nachos]

davidd@localhost ~ $ democracyplayer
INFO Starting up Democracy Player
INFO Version: 0.9.5.1
INFO Revision: unknown
INFO Loading preferences...
INFO Restoring database...
TIMING Database load slow: 0.177
INFO Recomputing filters...
INFO Spawning auto downloader...
INFO Displaying main frame...
INFO Creating video display...
INFO Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0
TIMING Icon clear: 0.003
INFO Starting event loop thread
INFO Finished startup sequence
INFO *** Launching Democracy Downloader Daemon ****
INFO ['/home/davidd/Movies/Democracy']
INFO updating the Guide
INFO Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0
TIMING idle (Thread Pool Callback (getHostByName - feeds.feedburner.com)) too slow (0.801 secs)
INFO loaded renderer 'xinerenderer'
INFO *** Daemon ready ***
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpOOONSS.html
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpSoa1sU.html
DTV: Warning: Can't process cookie expiration: Tue, 10-Jul-07 18:34:00 GMT
INFO got action:goToGuide?id=17
INFO got file:///home/davidd/.democracy/democracy-channel-guide.html
INFO got https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/front
DTV: Warning: Can't process cookie expiration: Tue, 10-Jul-07 18:34:00 GMT
DTV: Warning: Can't process cookie expiration: Tue, 10-Jul-07 18:34:01 GMT
DTV: Warning: Can't process cookie expiration: Tue, 10-Jul-07 18:34:00 GMT
TIMING feed update for: Diggnation (Large Quicktime) too slow (0.271 secs)
DTV: Warning: Can't process cookie expiration: Tue, 10-Jul-07 18:34:02 GMT
TIMING feed update for: Telemusicvision too slow (0.101 secs)
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor
davidd@localhost ~ $ WARNING downloader: connection closed -- quitting
INFO Shutting down downloaders...
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[bigtomrodney]

The only thing I can find is this -

https://bugs.launchpad.net/gentoo/+s...rea/+bug/98725

There is mention of a podcast there. Sabayon is Gentoo based so I hope this will help.

[nachos]

Thank you so much for your help, I will look into it

[Juan Pablo]

It seems the problem is Java not Democracy TV, it seems Sabayon is using Blackdown Java which is rather unstable in my opinion and it appears it's missing symbol needed by Democracy TV. Try with Sun Java

[nachos]

I am sorry to say I am not entirely sure how to go about doing that. forgive my n00bishness.

[Juan Pablo]

Don't worry, I'll help you
We will disable Java on your system for some time, don't worry if something doesn't work

mv /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-backup
Download the Linux version of Java from java.com: Hot Games, Cool Apps , DON'T download the RPM, get the *.bin (the other one) and save it to your desktop
chmod +x ~/jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
~/jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
Copy the folder just created to /opt

[nachos]

Does it matter that my processor is a dual core X86_64? Just curious because I see a 64 bit option.
also when i run chmod +x ~/jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin, I get an error telling me no such directory exists

[Juan Pablo]

Did you save it on your desktop? Maybe the file name changed, change it according to the new one.

There's no big difference between X86_64X86_64? and X86 , it depends on what you prefer, quantity over very slight or even unnoticeable perfomance jump