XMMS Question

[Adriann]

XMMS quit a day ago, previously it had been working perfectly. The icon would just bounce and would not start. I did use the auto orphan command and thinking that kludged XMMS I uninstalled XMMS, did a shut down, then reinstalled upon start up using URPMI. I am using the distrib that came with the current version of Mandriva Free - 10.2 I believe. All to no avail - same problem.
Saturday AM I gave it one last try, same as above, used terminal ti start XMMS; it worked perfectly.
As the attached photo shows.

Error msg: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I am assuming GTK is affiliated with Gnome OS. I am using KDE. I have had similar trouble with other versions of XMMS on older versions of Mandriva.

Any Ideas would be appreciated

Current Version Mandriva - Desktop 2.6.31.13-1mnb

Adriann

[bower]

is it possible you need to be in root to do this? it is worth a try.

Bower

[Dapper Dan]

Error msg: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I don't use Mandriva but when running into this type problem, the first thing I do is check and see if ANY version of the lib is present. Check in /usr/lib an /usr/local/lib or you could do:

locate libcanberra-gtk

If you can't find it, you should be able to install it using urpmi. It may be installed already but listed as a different version and XMMS is looking for an older one. As a for instance, it could be already on your machine as libcanberra-gtk-module.so.0.0.4. If there is no libcanberra-gtk-module.so to be found, you could symlink to the latest version:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libcanberra-gtk-module.so.0.0.4 libcanberra-gtk-module.so

What's interesting is, I run XMMS on several machines and none of them beg for this lib. Hope this helps...

[Adriann]

Hi Bower - I rarely log in as root, with the exception of using terminal. Under normal conditions I *should* be able to click on the desktop icon and XMMS should start.

Thank You for your help!.

is it possible you need to be in root to do this? it is worth a try.

Bower

[Adriann]

Hi Dan, thanks for your posting I'll give your idea a try. As I posted earlier, XMMS works great
for a while, then it 'breaks' and will not start. I only run Mandriva and I've had this happen over previous versions of the OS; I guess it's time to try and find an answer.

Adriann

I don't use Mandriva but when running into this type problem, the first thing I do is check and see if ANY version of the lib is present. Check in /usr/lib an /usr/local/lib or you could do:

locate libcanberra-gtk

If you can't find it, you should be able to install it using urpmi. It may be installed already but listed as a different version and XMMS is looking for an older one. As a for instance, it could be already on your machine as libcanberra-gtk-module.so.0.0.4. If there is no libcanberra-gtk-module.so to be found, you could symlink to the latest version:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libcanberra-gtk-module.so.0.0.4 libcanberra-gtk-module.so

What's interesting is, I run XMMS on several machines and none of them beg for this lib. Hope this helps...