Hi,

I've installed amaroK on KDE 3.2 with Mandrake 10, and can get as far as the splash screen. The command line output of amaroK is thus:

[amaroK loader] connecting to /home/xxx/.kde/socket-x1-6-00-d0-09-f7-45-be/amarok.loader_socket
[amaroK loader] amaroK not running. Trying to start it..
[amaroK loader] timed out trying to contact amaroK.
[amaroK loader] exiting.

Of course, x1-6-00-d0-09-f7-45-be does not exist. I only want to run amaroK locally, obviously, so why does it have to connect?
Is there a way to make it just look for localhost while I sort out my non-reverse-lookup hostname situation?

Thanks.

Also, settting up my hostname to what it SHOULD be, results in:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

amarok: cannot connect to X server :0.0

This also happens if I set it to something which is not a hostname, say, blahblahblah.

Yet, setting it back to x1-6-00-d0-09-f7-45-be (which does also not exist!) gets a different error, as above.

:blink:

Will a reinstall of amaroK, after setting hostname realhostnamehere create a socket with the correct hostname, and thus allow it to load that socket and connect to the correct location?

I have no control over my hostname until I login by the way. It seems to set itself to x1-6-00-d0-09-f7-45-be on boot.

Techmonkey wrote:

I've installed amaroK on KDE 3.2 with Mandrake 10, and can get as far as the splash screen. The command line output of amaroK is thus:

[amaroK loader] connecting to /home/xxx/.kde/socket-x1-6-00-d0-09-f7-45-be/amarok.loader_socket
[amaroK loader] amaroK not running. Trying to start it..
[amaroK loader] timed out trying to contact amaroK.
[amaroK loader] exiting.

Start directly by calling "amarokapp".

We should remove the socket... you agree?

$ amarokapp
bash: amarokapp: command not found

:blink:

I'll reinstall.

mxcl wrote:

We should remove the socket... you agree?

Actually.. no. Consider his next posting:

$ amarokapp
bash: amarokapp: command not found

Actually, I can't reinstall. I have TagLib 1.0 installed, but make dies on me when I try to make amaroK. It says:

"g++: /usr/lib/libtag.so: No such file or directory"

However, in /usr/lib, there are other libtag files, such as libtag.so.1 etc. Why would .so just not be there?

True, but I still have an uneasy feeling about the whole loader concept. It's another point of failure. Although I'm starting to think that maybe I'm being silly.

But there is a lot of bug reports where it seems amarok is in the path but amarokapp isn't.

So, what is the common fix to the amarok-not-in-path bug?