gmplayer does not find the default skin and no controls are visible after installing mplayer-skins or mplayer-skin-blue
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mplayer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
mplayer-blue (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mplayer
Without mplayer-skins package gmplayer does not start, because it does not find the default skin. This happens as well if you delete the config directory ~/.mplayer.
$ gmplayer
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 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.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/
Selected skin ( clearplayer ) not found, trying 'default'...
[skin] file ( /usr/share/
Skin not found (default).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Das Paket stammt nicht von Ubuntu.
Related branches
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in mplayer-blue (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
summary: |
- gmplayer does not find the default skin + gmplayer does not find the default skin and no controls are visible + after installing mplayer-skins or mplayer-skin-blue |
On Karmic, with latest updates.
# apt-cache policy mplayer svn20090426- 1ubuntu7 svn20090426- 1ubuntu7 svn20090426- 1ubuntu7 0 archive. ubuntu. com karmic/multiverse Packages dpkg/status
mplayer:
Installed: 2:1.0~rc3+
Candidate: 2:1.0~rc3+
Version table:
*** 2:1.0~rc3+
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
When clicking "MPlayer Media Player" (gmplayer) from the menu, CPU works for a bit, but no gmplayer opens..
When launching gmplayer with no arguments from shell: mplayer/ skins/default/ skin ) not found.
$ gmplayer
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 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.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/
Skin not found (default).
$ ls /usr/share/ mplayer/ skins/
blue/
$ grep skin /etc/mplayer/ mplayer. conf share/mplayer/ skins/< name> and ~/.mplayer/ skins/< name>).
# Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in
# /usr/local/
#skin = Abyss
# aptitude why mplayer-skin-blue
i mplayer Depends mplayer-skin
i A mplayer-skin-blue Provides mplayer-skin
After adding the following line to "/etc/mplayer/ mplayer. conf":
skin = blue
gmplayer opens, but it's control panel is all black (no controls are visible)
and the following output is shown:
$ gmplayer
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 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.
That is "gmplayer" from "mplayer" package.
However, "gnome-mplayer" from package gnome-mplayer, works fine...