Bug#428177: libao2: Problem with arts/mcop, despite default_driver=alsa09

[Ingo Saitz]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:10:40PM +0200, Johannes Bittner wrote:
> Severity: important

> When trying to start zsnes, which uses libao, the following messages
> appear:
> 
> | Creating link /home/theclaw/.kde/socket-speedy.
> | can't create mcop directory

I think the severity of this bug is grave. It breaks output of programs
depending on libao for sound output like mpg321 or ogg123.

It is easily reproduceable if you just remove /tmp/ksocket-$user and
neither mpg321 nor ogg123 would play any sound. Create the dir and it
works again (or start any kde application which plays sound, like
kaffeine).

This problem seems to be in upstream version 0.8.8, i could observe it
using libao2-0.8.8-1 and libao2-0.8.8-2. libao-0.8.6-4 works fine.

    Ingo
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