Hoary - media players - various issues

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:38 -0500, M Galvin wrote:
>It seems that none of the media player can play anything when i run them
>from the Application menu. When running xmms from the App menu it just
>hangs all the time. If I run xmms from the command line it "usually"
>works, but not always.
>
>When running totem I get the following error:
>
>	Totem could not play file:///.../lugradio-s289....ogg
>	Could not open resource for writing
>
>And i get the same: "Could not open resource for writing" when trying to
>use rhythmbox
>
>So i can effectively not play any music or listen to lug interview
>Mark :(.
>
>
>Although I did manually build MPlayer (latest from CVS) (into /usr/local
>to keep hoary clean) and that is working ok to play dvd's and such
>although that's not mixing the sound, but that's a separate problem.
>
>I am running a fresh Hoary Array-5 on a P4 with AC'97 audio. Is anybody
>having these issues?
>
>Matt
>
>

See this bug http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6696

Try this in the console:
polypaudio -k
polypaudio -nF /etc/polypaudio/default.pa

After that it should work

Santiago