xmms has stopped working after a reinstall

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 19 18:25:50 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:51:30PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I reinstalled Debian on a new 160GB disk, as part of an effort to get
> some odd hardware flakiness subside.  I now have everything back to
> normal except xine (which no longer seems to be in testing),
> mplayer (which I need to download again) and xmms.
> 
> xmms seemed to be missing a couple of .so files, which I found via
> apt-file, but when I press play xmms just cycles through the playlist at
> an incredible speed, and makes no output.  vlc plays mp3s just fine, so
> that's not the problem, but I haven't found any solutions online, and I
> was hoping that this would sound familiar to someone.  Thanks.

If you are using testing or unstable, expect some library package
breakage until the C++ ABI transition is completed.  Even thought most
stuff has avoided moving into testing, not everything has unfortunately.

stable on the other hand just works as it should. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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