XMMS freezes in KNOPPIX

[kbk]

Lately, every time I start up XMMS it freezes up and won't close, won't do anything at all. Is there any way I can get it to close down and then I could restart it and maybe it would work? For some reason it really bugs me when things are open and not working.

[fingal]

Sometimes a package will just stop working well for no obvious reason. Here are some things to try ...

Open a terminal up and type top ... You'll get a list of processes, one of which should be xmms. Each process has a PID or Process IDentification number. Make a note of the PID for xmms.

su
root password
kill <insert PID for xmms>

If you run top as root you can also k=kill the process from there. This isn't really good practice (but I would do it!)

In the terminal type xmms. This allows you to see xmms starting up from the backend ... There may be some error messages: a clue to your problems.

Assuming you use KDE you can also get process information by hitting Ctrl+Esc. I often confuse this with hitting Ctrl+Esc+Alt which gives you a skull and crossbones crosshair for killing desktop processes. From then on newbies treat me with fear and loathing.

Xmms relies on Glib ver. 1 (I think) and sometimes it ends up installed on systems running Glib ver. 2 ... that breaks the xmms packages.

This may help, it may not. It should at least get you further down the road.

[kbk]

I used the ctrl+alt thing, it worked fine. I'll see if I can figure exactly whats wrong later. Thanks alot! :P

[bryansmith]

A good old

killall -9 <program name>

always seems to work well for me when I need to kill something that isn't responding.

Bryan