Bug#470301: neverball: doesn't start if not using arts/kde

[Eddy Petrișor]

Subject: neverball: doesn't start if not using arts/kde
Package: neverball
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: this bug should be gone in lenny

When trying to start nverball on a GNOME system without arts, neverball
fails:

0 eddy at twix ~ $ neverball
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Creating link /home/eddy/.kde/socket-twix.
can't create mcop directory

This looks a lot like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396219
and I think the proper fix would be not to let an arts failure bring
down the entire game.


Known workaround is to create the ~/.kde/socket-`hostname -s` directory.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages neverball depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6           2.2.1-5+etch2     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 6.5.1-0.6         A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libsdl-image1.2        1.2.5-2+b1        image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2        1.2.6-1.1+b2      mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0        2.0.8-3+b1        ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.11-8          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  neverdata              1.4.0-1           data files for neverball & neverpu
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-13        compression library - runtime

neverball recommends no packages.

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