[SOLVED] opensuse 12.1 banshee won't start, kde

Knightron · 11-26-2011, 04:10 AM

Hi guys, decided to give opensuse a go; coming from Debian, i have zero experience with an rpm based distro. I have installed banshee from yast and when i try to start it, it shows the bouncing icon next to the cursor for a few seconds and then nothing. It fais to open.
I proceeded with launching it from the terminal and here's the results.

Code:

[Info  19:33:08.108] Running Banshee 2.2.0: [openSUSE 12.1 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-10-30 05:43:19 UTC]
The program 'Banshee' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'.
  (Details: serial 469 error_code 10 request_code 152 minor_code 1)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

tkedwards · 11-26-2011, 01:04 PM

It's a problem with the oxygen-gtk theme for Gtk apps in KDE. The workaround is:
menu->Applications->Configure Desktop->Application Appearance->GTK Styles and Fonts and change the style to something else, eg. 'Thin Ice'.

I've raised a bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732887
Anyone who comes across this please take the time to add a 'I have this problem too' comment to this bug, to encourage the developers to fix it.

Knightron · 11-26-2011, 04:50 PM

Hi mate, thanks heaps, that solved the issue. I tried to make a reply where you mentioned, but for some reason, i pressed the reply button and it dis nothing.

As a bit of a side note, i've just tried out clemintine music player, and it seems like a fantastic music player. So if anyone doesn't like amaroks interface and prefer a more itunes style, clemintine looks like a good alternative, based on early Amarok.

ExplosiveCheese · 11-28-2011, 11:50 AM

Thanks guys! I was having this problem too, and tkedwards solution worked like a charm.

Cheers!

Knightron · 11-28-2011, 02:09 PM

Hey explosivecheese, welcome to the forum; hope to see you around again. If you find an answer helpful you should go up to their post and just below report and quote, it says, did you find this post helpful yes | no. and press yes

ExplosiveCheese · 11-28-2011, 02:14 PM

Thanks for the warm welcome and the info.

yishaybs · 01-09-2012, 07:26 PM

I sometimes find that the "hardest" problems to solve, has a simple solution.
Thanks for the enlightenment on the GTK problem.

Attitux · 01-13-2012, 07:22 AM

Hi,
I'm new to this forum - just registered today.
I encountered the same problem and could solve it by changing the GTK Styles and Fonts to 'Thin Ice'.
Thanks to tkedwards :-)
Cheers !