gmusicbrowser broken yesterday (will not run) SOLVED

[nepal]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:24:21 -0500
Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 16:03 +0100, nepal wrote:
> > Are there any other gmusicbrowser users that have had 'gmb' broken
> > by an update either yesterday (tues) or mon 19/4?
> 
> I use gmusicbrowser, and I haven't had any issues since the updates
> monday/tuesday... 
> 
> > Unusually, I did'nt play any music yesterday and so am not sure
> > when it happened, but I know for definite I did play music with
> > 'gmb' on monday. The error may be related to a perl update, but I
> > don't know enough... 
> 
> I don't remember seeing any pearl updates, but I could be mistaken.
> Here's the packages that have updated for me over the past week:
> Monday(4-19-10): 
>         chromium-browser
>         chromium-browser-inspector
>         chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
>         playonlinux
>         
> Today(4-21-10):
>         chromium-browser
>         chromium-browser-inspector 
>         ffmpeg
>         kde-window-manager
>         kdebase-workspace-bin
>         kdebase-workspace-data
>         kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins
>         kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 
>         libavcodec52
>         libavdevice52
>         libavfilter0
>         libavformat52
>         libavutil49
>         libkdecorations4
>         libkwineffects1
>         libpostproc51
>         libswscale0
>         plasma-dataengines-workspace
>         plasma-widgets-workspace
> 
> Your mileage may vary, as I have KDE4 and chromium installed for
> testing.
> 
> In fact, the only time gmusicbrowser is mentioned in my update logs is
> when I installed it last November...and the last updates I received
> for perl were in January... so I wonder what the issue is?
> 
> To get a similar list of updates/installs, go check out System >
> Administration > Synaptic Package Manager > File > History.

Yes, did that, these were my updates.
==========================================
Commit Log for Tue Apr 20 20:32:56 2010

Upgraded the following packages:
ffmpeg (4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2) to 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1
libavcodec52 (4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2) to
4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1 libavdevice52 (4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2)
to 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1 libavfilter0
(4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2) to 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1
libavformat52 (4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2) to
4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1 libpostproc51 (4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2)
to 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1 libswscale0
(4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2) to 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2.1
===========================================
 
> > The problem is the application will not run from an icon. So I tried
> > running it from a terminal and this is the error messages I'm
> > getting.
> > 
> > ==========================================
> > nepal at nepal-ubu:~$ gmusicbrowser
> > Reading saved tags in /home/nepal/.config/gmusicbrowser/tags ...
> > skipping invalid song entry : 
> > Reading saved tags in /home/nepal/.config/gmusicbrowser/tags ...
> > done Use of uninitialized value $col in string eq
> > at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 8181. Use of uninitialized value
> > $cmd in hash element at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 8183. Use of
> > uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser
> > line 8183. Can't use string ("") as a subroutine ref while "strict
> > refs" in use at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 8183.
> > nepal at nepal-ubu:~$ ^C nepal at nepal-ubu:~$ 
> > ==========================================
> 
> This looks to me like corrupted tags file. try this:
> 
> >From GUI: (shortcut to get to folder: alt+F2 - run "nautilus
> ~/.config/gmusicbrowser")
>       * Go to your home folder
>       * Show hidden folders by hitting ctrl+h or goign to "View > Show
>         Hidden Files"
>       * Navigate to the folder ".config" (hint: stary typign the name,
>         and you should hop to it)
>       * within .config, look for the 'gmusicbrowser' folder
>       * you'll notice within the 'gmusicbrowser' folder there are
>         several files named tags* where the * is .bak or .bak.######:
>         try renaming the 'tags' file to something like 'broken-tags'
> or something, and rename the file 'tags.bak' to just 'tags' then
>         re-launch gmusicbroswer. my bet is that it will work.
> 
> >From Command line (do in this order):
>         cd ~/.config/gmusicbrowser
>         mv ./tags ./broke-tags
>         mv ./tags.bak ./tags
>         gmusicbrowser
> 
> the last one should result in a successful launch. If it doesn't, try
> using an older tags backup (if you can)... otherwise, try renaming the
> gmusicbrowser config folder (to something like gmusicbrowser-old) and
> launch the program again. it will start like it has never run before,
> and it will have to build the tag database back up again if you do it
> that way, but it should work.
> 
> If that doesn't work, then there's something else wrong entirely.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 


Indeed it did, thank you very much. 

It was a problem with the tags file which was resolved by restoring
from the last .bak backup file per your suggestions. Simple. Thanks.
Now I happily have my gmusicbrowser back and working. :)

nepal.