FC3: Gxine frozen

[fredex]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:54:42PM +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> antonio montagnani ha scritto / wrote  il / on 21/12/2004 12:29:
> 
> >antonio montagnani ha scritto / wrote  il / on 21/12/2004 12:24:
> >
> >>Suddenly gxine froze, I used to listen to Virgin radio (see 
> >>http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/listen/index.html ) by gxine 
> >>when surfing by Firefox, now I am not able to connect any longer. 
> >>System is a FC3 upgraded from FC2.
> >>
> >>If I start the gxine package from a terminal I get:
> >>
> >>server: trying to connect to already running instance of gxine 
> >>(/home/antoniomontagnani/.gxine/socket)...
> >>connect: Connessione rifiutata
> >>server: socket '/home/antoniomontagnani/.gxine/socket' created
> >>
> >>This is the list of my installed packages.
> >>   Package     Class     Description
> >>   gxine 0.3.3-2.fr     Applications/Multimedia     A GTK based 
> >>frontend for the xine multimedia library.
> >>   system-config-services 0.8.15-1     Applications/System     
> >>system-config-services is an initscript and xinetd configuration utility
> >>   xine 0.99.2-1.1.fc3.fr     Applications/Multimedia     Free 
> >>multimedia player
> >>   xine-lib 1.0.0-0.17.rc8.1.fc3.fr     Applications/Multimedia     
> >>Core library of the xine multimedia player
> >>
> >>Any hint?? Tnx for help
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >this happens also in a fresh session, with the machine just booted, no 
> >gxine, xine already running...
> >Of course system - config-services is not t b included in the picture, 
> >sorry for mistyping it
> >
> I upgraded to  gxine 0.3.3-3.1.fc3.rf but no improvement, exactly same 
> sympthoms....FC3 is fully updated

A wild guess: Xine or gxine died, leaving some sort of lock file
in place. When restarting, it sees the lock file and thinks there's
another instance already running. Find that lock and remove it
and all will (probably) be well.


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