XMMS Crash on Dapper

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Am Mon, 12. June 2006 15:54 schrieb Mehdi Hassanpour:
> Thanks Chanchao,
>
> No  errors, I had libmikmod error that solved by installing it's
> packages... I have installed all multimedia codecs
> but XMMS keeps crashing right when I press start button ;(

How did you do the dist-upgrade from breezy to dapper?
By using 'update-manager -d' or by using 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

I had a machine here where due to kde backports a 'update-manager -d' did not 
a full dist-upgrade. I had to use 'aptitude dist-upgrade' to have a full 
dist-upgrade. 

You may give aptitude a try in a terminal by typing:
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Using an 'aptitude dist-upgrade' is recommended by Debian for a  dist-upgrade 
of a Debian system.

>
> On 6/12/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:15 +0330, Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
> > > I have Dapper completely updated, installed xmms with apt-get... and
> > > the same settings and installation on another hardware works fine ;(
> > > bmp works on my hardware fine, but xmms crashes
> >
> > I hate to suggest this as I'm allergic to terminals, but open a terminal
> > and start it by typing
> >
> > xmms  [ENTER]
> >
> > and see if there are any error messages. (Chances are that there are,
> > and that they're really really helpful)
> >
> > Unix/Linux programmers seem incapable to pop up an error message window
> > when something major goes wrong, instead they expect everyone and their
> > granny to use a terminal or enjoy a romp through log files....   Given
> > enough time, this will change.
> >
> > By the way, if you installed XMMS because MP3's didn't play otherwise,
> > then note you can install support for MP3 in the usual music players by
> > reading the following, VERY helpful article:
> >
> > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
> >
> > (The reasons popular music and video formats don't play by default out
> > of the box are legal/political, not technical.)

regards,
thomas