Audacious not launching anymore in Hardy 8.04

[Ludwig]

Today I noticed audacious is not launching anymore in Hardy, on AMD64

 When I attempt to launch from a terminal, I get:

s$ audacious
amidi-plug(amidi-plug.c:amidiplug_init:97): init, read configuration
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:107): loading backend '/usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so'
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:145): backend /usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so (name 'alsa') successfully loaded
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/ludwig/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf"

I did a
sudo apt-get purge audacious

and then reinstalled, but the problem persists. It appears that a late update has completely borked audacious on Hardy.

Hopefully this can be fixed soon!!! Audacious was "my music program"

[RxS (rajeshxsankaran)]

I second that. Audacious is broken in Ubuntu Hardy x86. I have tried to reinstall it and it doesn't work. I cannot install xmms too, with apt-get giving me the following error.

~# apt-get install xmms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xmms is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package xmms has no installation candidate

Are these two related ?

Anyway Audacious error:
~$ audacious
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so: undefined symbol: ctrlsocket_get_session_id
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so): /usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so: undefined symbol: ip_data
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
Segmentation fault

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

xmms is no longer supported in hardy

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hi, thank you for your report. Please attach the output of the following two commands from the command line

dpkg -l audacio*
audacious

[RxS (rajeshxsankaran)]

@ Rolf : here you go !
~$ dpkg -l audacio*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii audacious 1.5.0-2 small and fast audio player which supports l
ii audacious-cros 0.3.14-1 Audacious Plugin for Crossfading / Continuou
ii audacious-dev 1.5.0-2 audacious development files
ii audacious-dumb 0.56-1 audacious plugin for MOD playback via libdum
ii audacious-plug 1.5.0-1ubuntu1 Base plugins for audacious
ii audacious-plug 1.5.0-1ubuntu1 Audacious-plugins development library and he
ii audacious-plug 1.5.0-1ubuntu1 Various extra plugins for audacious
ii audacious-plug 1.3.0-1 Unsupported plugins for audacious

~$ audacious
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so: undefined symbol: ctrlsocket_get_session_id
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so): /usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so: undefined symbol: ip_data
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
Segmentation fault

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting back. Please uninstall all plugins and try again. audacious-crossfade plugin is known to cause an immediate crash on startup. Fix is in the pipeline. Until then, let me know if you still experience crashes if all plugins have been uninstalled.

[RxS (rajeshxsankaran)]

@ Rolf : works on removing the crossfade plugin. Thanks !

~$ audacious
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libcube.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmplayer.so: undefined symbol: ctrlsocket_get_session_id
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so): /usr/lib/audacious/General/libnotify.so: undefined symbol: ip_data
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so): /usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/libiris.so: undefined symbol: xmms_usleep
amidi-plug(amidi-plug.c:amidiplug_init:97): init, read configuration
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:107): loading backend '/usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so'
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:145): backend /usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so (name 'alsa') successfully loaded

[AnRkey (anrkey)]

After an apt-get update, my installation worked perfectly this morning. I was devastated when xmms was gone and audacious would not install.

Thanks for this, you are my hero!

R

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

You can now reinstall the crossfade plugin if you want. It has been fixed.