A Myriad of Linux Problems

[macdude425]

Rather than start individual threads about my problems with Debian PPC, I figured I would clump them together in this thread.

1. Whenever I try to open a song, any song, in XMMS, it locks up, and I have to open the KDE Resource Manager to kill it. I've tried reinstalling it, but no luck. Weird thing is, if I'm logged in as root, it works sometimes rather than never as a regular user.

2. Xine cannot find my DVD drive. I've tried playing with the settings to fix it, but nothing. Do I need to change /media/cdrom to /media/dvdrom in /etc/fstab to fix it?

TIA everybody.

 

[GameGURU]

Do you only use debian?

 

[macdude425]

If you're asking if it's a dual-boot system, then yes it is, with Debian 3.1 and Mac OS X.

 

[GameGURU]

No, do you use any other linux distros?

 

[horndude]

alias the drive to boot as ide-scsi

then have xine look for it in /dev/sr0

start xmms from command line and see what it spits out

 

[macdude425]

Still working on the drive, I'll let you know how it works out.

As for XMMS, it spits out only "Message: device: default" when it's running, but when I have to kill it, I get:

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_iteration(): called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member or from a second thread, iteration not possible

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_iteration(): called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member or from a second thread, iteration not possible

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_iteration(): called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member or from a second thread, iteration not possible

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_iteration(): called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member or from a second thread, iteration not possible

 

[horndude]

Did you compile xmms from source?If not, it appears that your GLib version probably doesnt match what it was compiled against, not sure what or why its trying to call another thread though either.

 

[macdude425]

Nope, I apt-got it. Should I try to compile it from scratch, because I have a copy of the source?

 

[horndude]

its worth a shot, here do this first:

ldd /usr/local/bin/xmms ---------or wherever the xmms binary is, see what its compiled against then check your GLib version, make sure gtk+ matches up too, xmms has a few dependencies

 

[macdude425]

Well, that's funny...everything matches up. I'm gonna go ahead and try compiling it from scratch, and I'll report back.