I just updated xmms through yum to the latest version 1.2.10-18 and when I want to play a song I get the message "no output plugin selected".

So I went to the preferences and tried to select an output-plugin, but there are NO plugins anymore (the input plugins are still there)

Next thing I did was downloading the rpm's of both the previous version and the latest one.

Then I checked the contents of the rpm's with the 'rpm -qlp' command and found the following differences:
There appear to be a different kind of libraries (static) in the latest version which are not detected by xmms...bummer

Next thing I did was downloading the src-rpm of xmms 1.2.10-18 and build the rpm myself with the command:
And to my surprise the freshly build rpm (which can be found in "/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64") contained the following output-libraries:
Finally I updated my current installation with the command:
and everything works fine again: I have the usual four output-plugins back...

thanks a lot Borchen, I had the same problem... that just fixed the issue here.

rael

I had the same problem. I tried to solve it following your way, but:

so I compiled and installed libmikmod-3.1.11, and then tried again:

...read the first word of every line... what happened? I don't know how to go ahead...

Try the following source-rpm (just like I did):

xmms-1.2.10-18.fc4.src.rpm

It works! Great! Thanks a lot for sharing this experience.

Bye
Puppet

Worked for me, too (although I had some dependencies I had to resolve first). Thanks for sharing!

worked for me too. thanks for sharing.

Hey that worked a charm.. downloading that source and building xmms-1.2.10-18.x86_64.rpm
would this rpm be of any use to other people? could i post it somewhere for others ?

Apparently this problem is already posted on bugzilla;

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=175493

Well, this is interesting - the fix posted above works, until I reboot the machine. Then it reverts to the previous behavior.

Reinstalling the compiled binary fixes it again.

I've verified that there's only one xmms binary on the system (usr/bin/xmms).

The only thing I do beyond that is use yum to reinstall xmms-mp3, but that doesn't break xmms.

Got any suggestions?

I (ofcourse) also have this xmms-mp3 package installed, but I did not change anything about it...

When u install the freshly compiled xmms u have to UPDATE it with the following command:
You have to do this AFTER you install the xmms-mp3 package

This should work...otherwise

Doing it in that order seems to have done the trick. I'll keep an eye on it.

Thanks!

Orv

Hey! Keep in mind.. I thought later that I was having trouble with xmms, so I updated it via yum, and it went back to the same problem! - So I had to redo the force update with the compiled rpm on my machine.

Small update:

I just installed the most recent version of xmms (xmms-1.2.10-19.fc4) through yumex and the static/shared library problem is solved.

The following output-libraries are included: