Real player broke after funning well for a long time

[AJB3]

I'm running SUSE 11.1 and have had problems with both Amarok and Kaffeine, they both stutter pretty badly. Audacity works OK but is clumsy for just playing music. I installed RealPlayerGOLD11 and it worked very well. Played audio, video, just about evrything I tried. After a couple of months it stopped working, first no sound on youtube then no sound on any source (the other players still work as well as they ever did). Reinstalling doesn't help. I assume something got corrupted that's not getting cleaned up in the reinstall, but deleting the entire directory where it was installed didn't get it. The new install sees the previous install's old play list so there is definately something somewhere. Any ideas?

[gogalthorp]

Configuration files are kept in the users home directory. Normally as hidden directories. Try renaming the one for real. This will force the app to create a new one. Hopefully correct.

[AJB3]

My first reaction was "duh, why didn't I think of that" but if it's there, it's not only hidden but in full stealth mode. I've tried "find"ing and "grep"ing with no luck.
Running realplayer from the command line in terminal produces the same results, video with no sound or simply no sound. There is an error message to teh effect that ALSA ..... unable to create IPC semaphore.

[gogalthorp]

Ahh an error message.

Try running as root alsaconf in a console.

su
then the root password
alsaconf

report any errors

for config files did you look at the hidden ones ie those starting with a period?

in file browser you must set show hidden in the view menu.

I don't use real ( it never worked well for me) so I don't know the name the config files live under.

If you do a search you must be root because normally hidden files are hidden from normal users.

In any case you may try simple reconfiguring it.

Also you may look in Yast hardware-sound card and see if things are configured right and run the sound test.

[AJB3]

Well, I thought I had posted more information yesterday but I don't see it so maybe it's all been a dilusion. Anyway it's all getting to be more trouble then it's probably worth.

Running aksaconf reported the card configured OK, then I lost all sound and Mplayer crashed and I had to reboot. All sound functions worked just fine (except Real player which was not installed).

Reinstalling Real Player (bin) from the command line produced the following errors:

Copying RealPlayer files...No write-permission to /etc/profile.d ...skip.
.Succeeded.
installing application icons resource...
installing document icons resource...
......Succeeded.
.Configuring Mozilla...
Installing .mo locale files...
Setting selinux context...
/usr/share or /usr/bin no write-permission...skip.

RealPlayer installation is complete.
Cleaning up installation files...
Done.

There are Real related files in the above directories but they are links and scripts, and don't appear to be history related.

I don't remember any error messages from the original successful install. I also tried to install the .rpm version a few days ago with no success.


Running Real Player from the command line produces errors:

ajb@linux-x2ln:~/RPlayer/RealPlayer> ./realplay
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:975snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:975snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore

(message repeats many times}

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:975snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:975snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
./realplay: line 57: 2611 Floating point exception$HELIX_LIBS/realplay.bin "$@"
ajb@linux-x2ln:~/RPlayer/RealPlayer>

Using a video source I get video with no sound. Using an audio source I get nothing and the player goes away.

Lots of searching, including a brute force whole drive search for file containing parts of the old playlists that keep showing up produce nothing. I assume the old names are kept in some sort of compressed form or as some sort of pointers rather than as plain test.

The Find files/folders app in the green lizard button does look into hidden files just fine. So do “grep” and “find”, of course.