Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create "mcop" directory, then dies
Vincent McIntyre
Vince.McIntyre at atnf.csiro.au
Tue Nov 27 08:20:27 UTC 2007
Package: totem-xine
Version: 2.16.5-3
Severity: normal
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This system is straight etch with no backports.
totem appears to be looking for some file that it is expecting kde to
have created for it, and is completely unable to cope if it's not there.
This is even more odd when totem(1) says
totem is a movie player for the GNOME desktop...
% strace -o /tmp/totem.strace.3 /usr/bin/totem -v
Creating link /n/fred/.kde/socket-turrawan-cj.
can't create mcop directory.
% echo $?
0
% ls -ld /n/fred/.kde
4 drwx------ 3 fred fred 4096 2006-03-03 16:56 /n/fred/.kde/
% ls -l /n/fred/.kde/socket-turrawan-cj*
/bin/ls: No match.
% tail -30 /tmp/totem.strace.3
close(32) = 0
munmap(0xb4611000, 23838) = 0
close(30) = 0
stat64("/n/fred/.kde", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="turrawan-cj", ...}) = 0
lstat64("/n/fred/.kde/socket-turrawan-cj", 0xbffca2a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "can\'t create mcop directory\n", 28) = 28
close(9) = 0
close(8) = 0
write(16, "A", 1) = 1
futex(0x824394c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
unlink("/tmp/orbit-fred/linc-59b1-0-33226874250a2") = 0
close(12) = 0
write(18, "L", 1) = 1
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96a8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96ac, FUTEX_WAIT, 9, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
write(18, "L", 1) = 1
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96a8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96ac, FUTEX_WAIT, 11, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
write(18, "L", 1) = 1
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96a8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x80b96ac, FUTEX_WAIT, 13, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0x80b95f8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
munmap(0xb4617000, 4096) = 0
exit_group(1) = ?
Not sure how to progress here.
At the least, the error messages need a little work.
For example "can't create mcop directory in <location>" would be more
helpful. Perhaps that would not be too difficult to arrange.
The .kde file is there because the home directory is automounted by
different systems, and on some of those systems use kde has been used
as the desktop. The present environment is nice simple 'startx' with
fvwm2 and no session manager; there doesn't appear to be any cruft
hanging around in the environment either.
$ env|grep -i kde
$ env|grep -i gnome
I could not find anything relevant to this in /usr/share/doc, after
a quick check:
$ find /usr/share/doc/totem/ -exec grep -liw mcop {} \;
$ find /usr/share/doc/totem-xine/ -exec grep -liw mcop {} \;
Other people are hitting this as well, e.g.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/totemxinerythmbox-etc.-cant-create-mcop-directory-522471/
http://www.unixadmintalk.com/f59/debian-etch-xine-totem-problem-282454/
Cheers
Vince
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages totem-xine depends on:
ii gconf2 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-5 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.14.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-9 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblircclient0 0.8.0-9.2 LIRC client library
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.14.3-11+b1 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.8-2 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-3 0.3.6-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libtotem-plparser1 2.16.5-3 Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxine1 1.1.2+dfsg-4 the xine video/media player librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages totem-xine recommends:
ii totem-mozilla 2.16.5-3 Totem Mozilla plugin
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