Re: [gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

[Mick]

On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 03:24:27 Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't
> work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and
> smplayer reports "Mplayer has finished unexpectedly. Exit code:1".
>
> Running both as root from a terminal, the following message appeared:
>
>
> KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a
> valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you
> tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was
> created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work
> kmplayer(8687): Session bus not found
> To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
> export $(dbus-launch)
>
>
> I did that export while still as root, and then both started to work, so
> there is no problem with them, but some setting is missing. Additionally,
> even that export did not work for smplayer/kmplayer as regular user.
>
> What should I do next? Where to look at?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Francisco
> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
> and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
> one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
> ideas." - George Bernard Shaw

Is dbus running?  What do you get from:

# /etc/init.d/dbus status

and 

$ echo $(dbus-launch)

Finally, launch mplayer -msglevel all=6 <some_video_file> to see what you get 
on the command line.  You can increase -msglevel 6 up to 9 to get more verbose 
debugging output.  Press q to stop the debugging session - you only need the 
first couple of screenfulls, until it starts the PARSE messages.
-- 
Regards,
Mick