Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create "mcop" directory, then dies

[Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au]

Hi Josselin

> Is artsd started when you see this error?
I don't think so.

% ps -fade|grep arts
<nothing>

% dpkg -S artsd
libkdepim1a: /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/designer/kpartsdesignerplugin.so
libarts1c2a: /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0
libarts1c2a: /usr/bin/artsdsp
libarts1c2a: /usr/bin/artsd
libarts1c2a: /usr/lib/libartsdsp_st.so.0.0.0
libarts1c2a: /usr/lib/libartsdsp_st.so.0
libarts1c2a: /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0
libkdepim1a: /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/designer/kpartsdesignerplugin.la

% dpkg -l libarts1c2a|grep ii
ii  libarts1c2a    1.5.5-1        aRts sound system core components


> If not, this is a problem with the "auto" driver in libxine, which
> shouldn't even try the arts plugin.

This appears to be the problem, then. I have no idea if these are
useful, but fyi.

% ldd /usr/bin/totem|grep -i xine
         libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb79cd000)
         libxine.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxine.so.1 (0xb758a000)

% grep ^open /tmp/totem.strace.3 |grep -v ENOENT|grep -i xine|sort -u
open("/n/fred/.xine/catalog.cache", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 25
open("/n/fred/.xine/catalog.cache", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/post", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 26
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/post/xineplug_post_goom.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/post/xineplug_post_tvtime.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so", O_RDONLY) = 26
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_ao_out_arts.so", O_RDONLY) = 26
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_ao_out_oss.so", O_RDONLY) = 26
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_a52.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_ff.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_qt.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_real_audio.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_real.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_sputext.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_cdda.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_dvb.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_dvd.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_file.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_gnome_vfs.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_http.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_mms.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_net.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_pnm.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_pvr.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_rtp.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_rtsp.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_smb.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_v4l.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_vcdo.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_inp_vcd.so", O_RDONLY) = 25
open("/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_vo_out_xv.so", O_RDONLY) = 26
open("/usr/openwin/lib/libXinerama.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/openwin/lib/libxine.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3


% lsmod |grep -i alsa
<nothing>
% lsmod | grep -i snd
snd_hda_intel          17332  0
snd_hda_codec         137856  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            38368  0
snd_mixer_oss          15200  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                68676  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              20996  1 snd_pcm
snd                    47012  6 
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9248  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9640  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Cheers
Vince