[gentoo-user] Problems after upgrading

[gentoo-user] Problems after upgrading

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi all,

Yesterday, among the packages in my upgrade list was kde-3.5.  After
getting the problem with perl-cleaner solved (thanks to the help on this
list), the upgrade went apparently smoothly.

According to what I read in some of the Gentoo documentation after
booting into kde-3.5, I had to rebuild some of the packages against
kde-3.5 in order for them to work, for example amarok.  The rebuild of
this went fine.  I can listen to my music collection with amarok.  I can
play CD's with kscd.  The problem seems to be with kaudio creator.  And
it is acting erratically.

First, when I tried to rip a cd, it wouldn't encode it, nor would it let
me configure the encoder (oggenc).  I'm not sure how, but somehow, I got
passed that, but the application would freeze part way through the
ripping process.  When I got the message that the application was not
responding and I responded affirmatively when asked if I wanted to
terminate it, ps -ax still showed the application as running and I
couldn't kill it with kill -9.  At this point, if I continued using the
computer without a reboot, inevitably some other application would
freeze up on me.  However, if I rebooted and didn't use kaudiocreator
again, everything seems to be fine.

This time, I did check the list archives, but didn't notice anything
relevant.  I checked the bug list as well and there appears to be a
couple of kdemultimedia bugs that have been reported.  Whether or not my
problem has something to do with the kdemultimedia bugs, I'm not sure. 
However, if anyone has any ideas here, I am open to suggestions.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after upgrading

[Richard Fish]

On 5/28/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, among the packages in my upgrade list was kde-3.5.  After
> getting the problem with perl-cleaner solved (thanks to the help on this
> list), the upgrade went apparently smoothly.
>
> According to what I read in some of the Gentoo documentation after
> booting into kde-3.5, I had to rebuild some of the packages against
> kde-3.5 in order for them to work, for example amarok.  The rebuild of
> this went fine.  I can listen to my music collection with amarok.  I can
> play CD's with kscd.  The problem seems to be with kaudio creator.  And
> it is acting erratically.
>
> First, when I tried to rip a cd, it wouldn't encode it, nor would it let
> me configure the encoder (oggenc).  I'm not sure how, but somehow, I got
> passed that, but the application would freeze part way through the
> ripping process.  When I got the message that the application was not
> responding and I responded affirmatively when asked if I wanted to
> terminate it, ps -ax still showed the application as running and I
> couldn't kill it with kill -9.  At this point, if I continued using the
> computer without a reboot, inevitably some other application would
> freeze up on me.  However, if I rebooted and didn't use kaudiocreator
> again, everything seems to be fine.
>
> This time, I did check the list archives, but didn't notice anything
> relevant.  I checked the bug list as well and there appears to be a
> couple of kdemultimedia bugs that have been reported.  Whether or not my
> problem has something to do with the kdemultimedia bugs, I'm not sure.
> However, if anyone has any ideas here, I am open to suggestions.

Nothing obvious comes to mind, except checking dmesg (or
/var/log/messages) for anything ominous occuring at the time of the
trouble.  You could also check ~/.xsession-errors for any error
messages from application(s).

-Richard
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