Mixxx fails to boot (Skin directory does not exist) on Japanese environment(MacOSX Snow leopard)

[sonkm3]

mixxx cannot boot when I using OSX in Japanese.

When I run mixxx from finder, dialog shown with message 'Skin directory does not exist: "/Contents/Resources/skins/"' and click on "OK" mixxx shutdown.

this problem reported on user's blog and solution is "copy <appdir>/Contents/Resources/skins/ to <root>/Contents/Resources/skins" and it works. but would you please fix this problem?

It might fail to grab current bundle directory on getConfigPath() in configobject.cpp I think...

I'm using MacOSX 10.6.2 Core2Duo 2.4GHz
LANG is ja_JP.UTF-8 (I choose Japanese as default language on System preference)

here's log when I boot mixxx from Terminal

sousuke-imac:MacOS sousuke$ ./mixxx
Debug: [Main]: Setting up plugin paths...
Debug: [Main]: ...done.
Debug: [Main]: setting Qt's plugin seach path (on OS X)
Debug: [Main]: Mixxx 1.7.2 "(bzr r2518; built on: Dec 27 2009 @ 18:18:25) " is starting...
Debug: [Main]: Could not read "/Users/sousuke/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
Debug: [Main]: No version number in configuration file. Setting to 1.7.2
Debug: [Main]: Could not read "/Contents/Resources/keyboard/Standard.kbd.cfg"
Debug: [Main]: ControlObject::getControl returning NULL for ( "[Mixer Profile]" , "LoEQFrequency" )
Debug: [Main]: SampleRate 0
Debug: [Main]: Latency 0
Critical: [Main]: Skin directory does not exist: "/Contents/Resources/skins/"
Fatal: [Main]: Could not open skin definition file: skin.xml
Abort trap
sousuke-imac:MacOS sousuke$

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

I imagine this is an issue in 1.8.x as well.

[Albert Santoni (gamegod)]

It looks like we were guessing what the string encoding was, which almost definitely broke on OS X systems that use non-MacRoman text encodings.

I think I've just committed a fix for this, so sonkm3 if you can please test our next release of Mixxx (1.8.0 Beta2) when it comes out, let us know if the problem is solved!

Thanks for reporting this,
Albert

[sonkm3 (sonkm3)]

I run mixxx 1.8.0 Beta2 on my MacBook, which running OSX 10.6.4 with Japanese enviroment.

And it works!!!

mixxx boots fine as OSX in English environment, and I could listen songs.

Thank you!!!

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/5271