XMMS, Work!

screamoboy86 · 10-06-2004, 11:36 AM

So I installed the media player, and everytime I attempt to play a file within the playlist, it will close the program. What's up?

masand · 10-06-2004, 12:16 PM

hi there

run xmms in a terminal like type
"xmms" in a termina land see what messags u get when it crashes

regards

screamoboy86 · 10-06-2004, 12:59 PM

How odd. I opened it through a terminal, and then it worked fine. When I closed the terminal, XMMS closed as well. I don't know as if this is normal, but then when I tried to open the program as normal without a terminal, it closes when I attempt to play a file.

max_sipos · 10-06-2004, 01:25 PM

How do you start XMMS normally? Do you use Gnome or KDE? What does the program shortcut execute?

Does xmms work when you type "xmms &" in shell?

Does xmms work if you execute it as a user (i.e. not as root) from shell?

Paste the result of typing "env" in shell.

masand · 10-06-2004, 01:26 PM

hi there

have u installled 2 versions of xmms??

regards

screamoboy86 · 10-06-2004, 01:30 PM

When I type XMMS in the command prompt, it opens properly. I use KDE. I might have 2 versions installed, how do I check? Would that make a difference in this situation?

masand · 10-06-2004, 01:59 PM

hi there

maybe !!

running xmms in terminal might be picking up the xmms in default loactions while the shortcut would have been to say
/usr/local/xmms/bin/xmms
this path may be differnt

or make a new shorcut and put the command to excute in that as

xmms

see what u get for

rpm -qa|grep xmms

if ur distro follows rpm

regards