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problems installing xmms on lenny

Hello. I became used to xmms as my default music player on Etch, but it was taken out of Lenny. I discovered a site that has packages for it, right here. However, while the install went fine, I was unable to run it. I then downloaded the provided debian source package from the same site, and created my own package. This too installed fine, but it won't run. Here's the error I get:

Code:

mark@debian:~/stuff/debs/xmms/xmms-1.2.11$ xmms

Message: device: default

Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

  serial 1504 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0

Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:

#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7b12787]

#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7b1292e]

#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7cdcde9]

#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XSync+0x25) [0xb7cd1115]

#4 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0(gdk_flush+0x2a) [0xb7e3267a]

#5 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0(gdk_image_destroy+0x55) [0xb7e3a325]

#6 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0(gdk_image_exit+0x2a) [0xb7e3a42a]

#7 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 [0xb7e272d5]

#8 /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(exit+0x89) [0xb7b46ab9]

#9 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 [0xb7e27495]

#10 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XError+0xd9) [0xb7cd57d9]

#11 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7cdd798]

#12 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x15a) [0xb7cddb4a]

#13 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XSync+0x67) [0xb7cd1157]

#14 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0(gdk_flush+0x2a) [0xb7e3267a]

#15 xmms(draw_main_window+0x155) [0x8087a55]

#16 xmms(set_doublesize+0x96) [0x80892a6]

#17 xmms(mainwin_options_menu_callback+0x3ae) [0x80896fe]

#18 /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 [0xb7ee3ab8]

#19 /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0(gtk_marshal_NONE__NONE+0x16) [0xb7ef6cf6]

Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

  serial 1505 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0

Any idea what is wrong, and if it can be fixed?

I'm now going to simply try to install from source, and not worry about building a debian package.

I just discovered that it does work when I run it as root, but not as regular user. Well, I'm not sure how to fix that. So, I guess I'll stick with moc (music on console), which, frankly, works quite well.

Known issues

* If XMMS crashes with the error message Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes), try running it with the command XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 xmms

moc and shell-fm are the only music players I have installed, well other than mplayer.

#318093 - xmms: XMMS does not start with Xorg and enabled CompositeExtension - Debian Bug report logs

Quote:

Please see http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1907 for an explanation of the problem. In short, there are certain compatibility issues with GTK+ 1.2.x applications and the Composite extension, as you have discovered. There is a work-around, however: 'export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && xmms' Furthermore, since this doesn't affect all users (Composite is disabled by default, and obviously for good reason)

Also you might try audacious, it is very similar to xmms.

Why not give 'xmms2' a try ?

# apt-get install xmms2

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 3733433)

Known issues

* If XMMS crashes with the error message Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes), try running it with the command XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 xmms

Thanks. This does work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 3733433)

Also you might try audacious, it is very similar to xmms.

I believe that is what I'll do. Time to move to the next level of gtk, I guess. I'm sure I'll get used to audacious' subtle differences (from xmms) after a while, and be happy enough with it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl (Post 3734611)

Why not give 'xmms2' a try ?

# apt-get install xmms2

I use aptitude, actually. Anyway, I did look at xmms2, but the program seemed to be trying to accomplish something other than what the original objective of xmms was, I felt. Anyway, it just didn't strike a chord with me. However, audacious is close enough, and as I mentioned in my previous post, I'm sure I'll get used to it over time.