From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdI2d-0005Ck-MM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:28:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7594921C024; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 08:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295C421C024 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 08:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so4088272wyh.40 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:26:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Faj4t/qvo7j21E7V2WsSHdZPQYDIcrmoRF0EFyDOh0s=; b=gKfrkacq82iJfsGouOiSQJ4W9/VJC+kCkkx0HucmNFRgRuzT+ehbfJqWlFTaJ51kSp riSq1dbvQfR5KeNY2YAd5y5oJCZVyFlssHEj9rVPUF/isgOExl7j3kx+DEbEGjamKzcg CZB02sGCpEKXsqA+JvVDAsujW4Y+3Q5Kqj0kE= Received: by 10.227.202.205 with SMTP id ff13mr4443871wbb.102.1309681603254; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gb1sm3548372wbb.37.2011.07.03.01.26.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:26:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 09:27:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1419856.erNlQLGvqG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107030927.26706.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ffafd6079ad3112239f2784f09027224 --nextPart1419856.erNlQLGvqG Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 03:24:27 Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All, >=20 > I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't > work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and > smplayer reports "Mplayer has finished unexpectedly. Exit code:1". >=20 > Running both as root from a terminal, the following message appeared: >=20 >=20 > KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a > valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you > tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was > created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work > kmplayer(8687): Session bus not found > To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash) > export $(dbus-launch) >=20 >=20 > I did that export while still as root, and then both started to work, so > there is no problem with them, but some setting is missing. Additionally, > even that export did not work for smplayer/kmplayer as regular user. >=20 > What should I do next? Where to look at? >=20 > Thanks a lot > Francisco > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you > and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have > one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two > ideas." - George Bernard Shaw Is dbus running? What do you get from: # /etc/init.d/dbus status and=20 $ echo $(dbus-launch) =46inally, launch mplayer -msglevel all=3D6 to see what y= ou get=20 on the command line. You can increase -msglevel 6 up to 9 to get more verb= ose=20 debugging output. Press q to stop the debugging session - you only need th= e=20 first couple of screenfulls, until it starts the PARSE messages. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1419856.erNlQLGvqG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4QJ+4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa7xACdE0oe/0xpGLiL+4tfq+Pli3JN UwsAoOzYS4w0Z1MJ9wcC9IGIe8FVQVO9 =HIn6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1419856.erNlQLGvqG--