gmplayer is broken

[Jerry Quinn]

I try to run gmplayer from the cmdline and it fails:

jlquinn@cerberus:~/Videos$ gmplayer /dev/dvd
MPlayer 1.2.1 (Debian), built with gcc-5.3.1 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Error in skin config file at line 6: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main
Config file processing error with skin 'default'

Exiting... (Fatal error)
jlquinn@cerberus:~/Videos$

I see 3 older bugs that have problems with default skin, but they all show fix released.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: mplayer-gui 2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 24 23:56:55 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-30 (359 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: mplayer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-31 (358 days ago)

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

https://askubuntu.com/a/1159551/368900

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

According to bug 1218510 comment #32,

> This bug was fixed in the package mplayer-skins - 3.2build1
> mplayer-skins (3.2build1) cosmic; urgency=medium

[James Thomas Moon (jtm-moon-forum-user+launchpad)]

Then in bug 1218510 comment #33

> The new package http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayer-skins/mplayer-skins_3.2build1_all.deb still doesn't work