On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 12:45 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:47 +0000, Stanton Finley wrote: > > After a recent yum update (i386) and installation of xmms via yum xmms > > won't start. When I try to start it in a terminal I get: > > > > Creating link /home/stan/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain. > > can't create mcop directory > > > > This happens both as root and as my regular user. Any ideas? > > Did you recently update arts to 1.5.0? I had similar issues with gltron, > bzflag, and a few other SDL apps from Extras that didn't like it. > > As root, run `rpm -e --nodeps arts` to remove arts. > > It's a very dirty kludge though, as Livna's xine and mplayer builds > depend on arts, so they will not function when arts is removed (can't > load some arts libraries). > > [off-topic] > Let it be known that I really...*really* despise arts.... > [/off-topic] > It's odd. I installed Beep, a fork of xmms from Extras. I also installed the Beep MP3 plugin bmp-mp3 from Dries, rebooted, and then xmms itself began working. Not quite sure what fixed it though. Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/
