Guest pinecone Posted January 18, 2003 Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 This is a problem that happens to me a lot. I open xmms and press play and it does nothing. restarting the sound server doesnt help. wht is the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kamikaze_Gerbil Posted January 18, 2003 Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 Try deleting the .xmms directory in your home folder and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pinecone Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 I tried. I didnt help. btw, this usually happens to me if my computer has been on a while. Sometimes it happens after I play Quake 3, but i think it has heppende before i had quake3. I can only get it to work if i reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 Next time it happens, open a term and type ps auxf find the sound server and relevent entries and type kill -9 pid you'll find the pid listed on the left, so if artsd had a pid of 1533, type kill -9 1533 Then try to restart the server. You probably couldn't restart it because it thinks it's already running. I'd call it a runnaway proccess I guess. To find out next time it happens, take the command shown in ps auxf (which tells you it's "trying" to run), open a term and issue the command from the term /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f then you'll probably get a message in the term that says arts is already running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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