On 04/09/15 20:29, John Andersen wrote:
On 09/04/2015 02:22 AM, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Hello list,
I upgraded my laptop from 12.3 to 13.2 yesterday, then re-installed the restricted codecs from Pacman.
I then switched Amarok to its Pacman version, but the program just died with a segfault each time I tried to launch it.
I supposed it was due to an incompatibility in the dependencies, so I clicked the "switch system packages" link in YaST to use the Pacman version when it exists.
Far from fixing the problem, this has completely broken Phonon : every app that uses Phonon now crashes (Amarok, KNotify, System Settings when clicking on Multimedia, etc.).
A post I found recommended installing the phonon packages from Pacman, but they don't seem to be provided there.
Any idea?
TIA
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
On my KDE4 installation of 13.2 (which was originally done as a fresh install), the only phonon packages I have are all from opensuse repositories: libphonon4, phonon-backend-gtstreamer, and python-kde4-phonon.
My Amarock, is from Kde repository,
My vlc and gtstreamer are from packman repository,
By the way, that Switch System Packages should be used sparingly. I will turn that on just long enough to install one or twi specific things, then turn it off again.
Thanks for your advice, John. I was able to get back to a working situation by: - reverting Amarok to the OpenSUSE version - reverting VLC to the OpenSUSE version - using "System Settings" | "Multimedia" to switch the KDE sound backend from phonon to GStreamer - then switching back VLC to the Packman version. KNotify no longer crashes, and both VLC and Amarok play MP3s. Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com