Good day Bill, Mandag den 13. oktober 2003 10:25 kvad Bill Wisse:
After been using XMMS ( 1.2.7, what came with the SUSE cd's) happily for many many months on my 8.2 box all of a sudden something is wrong. It won't start any more and below is the message I get when using the commandline:
[SNIP Gtk error messages]
A shot in the wild... Right before the problem started you updated, upgraded, installed or removed something?
Yes, I actually did. XMMS from 1.2.8 pre1 to 1.2.8. After the upgrade it didn't work anymore. I uninstalled everything related to XMMS and then installed the rpm from CD. But it still didn't work. ( see the error message)
Don't be too sure I can help. The error messages tells me nothing except that calling some Gtk stuff seems to be the problem. I simply make "educated guesses" from that. I will try my best to help though. The packages you used to update XMMS may have contained general Gtk system files which updated some general Gtk system files on your system. Even though you have uninstalled everything that has to do with XMMS, the general Gtk system files may have been left updated, since uninstalling them would break all other Gtk programs that depend on them. My guess is that you have only uninstalled XMMS and whatever Gtk files are solely used by XMMS, and that some general Gtk system files were left updated. Can you start other Gtk based programs after your XMMS update? I do not know if there are any options to force an installation of XMMS from the CDs to also install everything that XMMS depends on from the CDs, in effect downgrading whatever Gtk files your failed XMMS update has updated. What was on the CDs worked, so that might be worth a try if you are adventurous. Be sure to back up your system before you try this. Best regards :o) Johnny :o)