Having problems launching xmms2 in the KDE Desktop on Slackware 14.0
 

Hi I have installed xmms2 from the SlackBuild site. I am running an i3 Desktop with Slackware 14.0 huge smp patched with the latest patches as recommended by the security advisories. I am also running KDE 4.8.5 as my desktop.

The installation of xmms2 appears to have succeeded, but when I try to launch it I get an indication of activity from the mouse icon, but then it stops and xmms2 is not available. I have tried all of the various xmms2 executables in /usr/bin but nothing seems to work.

I want to try xmms2 to see how well it handles mp4 files. Audacious hangs every-time I try it with mp4 and xmms shuts down after playing about 7-8 mp4s no matter how many I have in the play list.

If anyone has any experience with getting xmms2 running I would appreciate the suggestions.

Thanks

hi mariner53.

xmms2 is pretty outdated and depends an older glib (2.16) and python (2.4).
if you could supply the errors you get, we can pinpoint the problem.

OK I have the following glib and python packages running on my system

glib-1.2.10-i486-3
glib-networking-2.32.3-i486-1
glib2-2.32.4-i486-7
glibc-2.15-i486-7
glibc-i18n-2.15-i486-7
glibc-profile-2.15-i486-7
glibc-solibs-2.15-i486-7
glibc-zoneinfo-2013b-noarch-1_slack14.0

python-2.7.3-i486-2
python-dateutil-2.1-i486-1_SBo

When I type xmms2 in the command line it gives me the XMMS CLI Shell and I can type in commands, but that is not the interface I really want use.

When I try launching from the KDE menu I get icon activity for a while and then nothing and xmms2 does not start.

When I tried xmms2-launcher in the command line I got the following:

bash-4.2$ xmms2-launcher
xmms2-launcher: startup of xmms2d failed!
bash-4.2$ xmms2d
INFO: ../src/xmms/log.c:49: Initialized logging system :)
15:11:25 ERROR: ../src/xmms/ipc.c:805: Couldn't setup IPC listening on 'unix:///tmp/xmms-ipc-mariner53'.
15:11:25 FATAL: ../src/xmms/main.c:538: IPC failed to init!

The xmms2 web site makes it seem that it should be enabled to run on KDE, but I could not find a KDE client in the listing.

Thanks for your help.