Kaffeine and Amarok broken after "emerge --update world

papaf · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

Uhm, what do you mean? What package have you updated?

UMMO · n00b Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 4

That solves it for me too - /usr/share/services was read only for all but root, and after a chmod 755 /usr/share/services and kbuildsycoca, everything works perfectly. Thanks.

vult · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

I've checked it on the other machine with same problem and it works.
So the solutions is: change permission /usr/share/services to 755 and kbuildsycoca :]
Solved ?
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akb · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:

confirmed. fixed it here even after rebooting :-)

thanks honey :-)

papaf · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

Hi,
well, I don't think we can say this is solved, because some packages actually creates this directory wrong, so until someone figures the package out, it's only a patch.
It could well be that installing a new package will resume the old behaviour, so look out...

I'm in the progress of installing a new PC with gentoo this week, so I'll probably bump on it...

Fabio

UMMO · n00b Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 4

Could be the amarok package - of the packages which own files in /usr/share/services according to equery, I'm pretty sure I installed amarok first.

meyerm · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

Hello together,

I just encountered the very same problem and "solved" it by copying the root-db to the kde-user directory. All the other proposals weren't applicable since everyting was ok.

Does anybody know where this problem comes from? Copying this file can't be the "true" solution...

thanks,
M

dgrant · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject:

I'm having this problem right now as well.

basiaf · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 44 Location: Dortmund

Also having that problem atm, no solution worked for now. I'll have a look at that later, I'm a bit in a hurry...

dgrant · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:33 am Post subject:

Still not working for me either. Just one one particular machine.

marcrosoft · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

I have tried all the solution above and the only one that gets amarok to work for me is copying /tmp/kde-root/kysoca to /tmp/kde-user/kysoca .

Anyone have anymore information about this?

serge · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Hi Everybody

I got the same problem after having upgraded kde from 3.5.2 to 3.5.5: amarok stopped working and I got the same
errors.
I unsmasked amarok 1.4.4 and installed it: the errors remained.

I installed manually amarok (./configue, make, make install) and now it is working.

Serge

xolijh · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Have a look at bug #148681

The solution is to delete old .la files in /usr/kde that are related to amarok:

hanj · Veteran Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 1426

Hello

It doesn't appear to be finding the *.la files...

jschitt · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Bucharest, RO

i have the same problem but not with amarok, with kaffeine;
I switched to the latest versions (~amd64) of:

Kaboosh · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: O-Kay Sure...

Armond · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: US, Texas

The problem of Amarok giving the sound-engine error has been showing up for me as well.

The 'services' permission fix worked:

chmod a+rx /usr/share/services

eNTi · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject:

i've recently switched to the kde-meta-3.5.6 builds (i did not emerge kde-meta though) and since, i've no plugins for either ktorrent or amarok. amarok just fails with the same error you guys got, while ktorrent can be started but simply has no plugins. i've tried almost all suggestions in this thread, without luck.
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Kaboosh · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: Thanks for the Heads-Up

eNTi · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

it's from 3.5.5. i can't remember, what i did (i think i deleted the amarokrc file), but it works again.
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radg · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Edinburgh, UK