Hi All 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: billy@linux:~> xmms Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) serial 7 error_code 2 request_code 1 minor_code 0 Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkWidget' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1387 (gtk_widget_destroy): assertion `widget != NULL' failed. billy@linux:~> Has anybody any idea what happened here? Thanks. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Good day Bill, Mandag den 13. oktober 2003 03:10 kvad Bill Wisse:
Hi All 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? Best regards :o) Johnny :o)
On Sunday 12 October 2003 20:36, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Bill,
Mandag den 13. oktober 2003 03:10 kvad Bill Wisse:
Hi All 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) Thanks for your reply and I hope you can help me to fix this problem. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
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)
* Bill Wisse (wiswp@niue.nu) [031013 01:09]:
On Sunday 12 October 2003 20:36, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Bill,
Mandag den 13. oktober 2003 03:10 kvad Bill Wisse:
Hi All 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) Thanks for your reply and I hope you can help me to fix this problem.
Try moving this file .. ~/.xmms/config to /tmp then starting xmms. Sometimes the config file has something in it that causes problems when going from one version to the next. Maybe between pre1 and the final something changed. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
On Monday 13 October 2003 01:10, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Bill Wisse (wiswp@niue.nu) [031013 01:09]:
On Sunday 12 October 2003 20:36, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Bill,
snip>
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) Thanks for your reply and I hope you can help me to fix this problem.
Try moving this file .. ~/.xmms/config to /tmp then starting xmms. Sometimes the config file has something in it that causes problems when going from one version to the next. Maybe between pre1 and the final something changed. :)
Thanks very much Ben, this worked. ( --Bill with happy face) -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
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* Bill Wisse (wiswp@niue.nu) [031013 01:09]:
On Sunday 12 October 2003 20:36, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Bill,
Mandag den 13. oktober 2003 03:10 kvad Bill Wisse:
Hi All 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) Thanks for your reply and I hope you can help me to fix this problem.
Try moving this file .. ~/.xmms/config to /tmp then starting xmms. Sometimes the config file has something in it that causes problems when going from one version to the next. Maybe between pre1 and the final something changed. :)
I've had this problem with xmms before. I my case I would just rename the dot file to something else. An "mv .xmms xmms-bad" did it for me. This would happen to me for things like plugins that would kludge on my when enabling and then having to hard kill it because it would lock up. In your case it sounds like you might have changed/upgraded a gtk packages. Or you tried to change a setting that wasn't happy and it hiccupped in a way that caused problems with Xmms. Either way you need to change the default dot xmms directory, of if looking at the config file for xmms you can figure out what isn't right and manually change it - this has helped me also in the past. But you have to know what in the config file is wrong. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jPMkiqnGhdjCOJsRAr+2AJ4srKMBxzK4r5t0iI1ELpdaXPPw7ACfW6MG StCFu9WHYP5JuMp3Ljc9rug= =t25R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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