Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after upgrading

[Richard Fish]

On 5/28/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, among the packages in my upgrade list was kde-3.5.  After
> getting the problem with perl-cleaner solved (thanks to the help on this
> list), the upgrade went apparently smoothly.
>
> According to what I read in some of the Gentoo documentation after
> booting into kde-3.5, I had to rebuild some of the packages against
> kde-3.5 in order for them to work, for example amarok.  The rebuild of
> this went fine.  I can listen to my music collection with amarok.  I can
> play CD's with kscd.  The problem seems to be with kaudio creator.  And
> it is acting erratically.
>
> First, when I tried to rip a cd, it wouldn't encode it, nor would it let
> me configure the encoder (oggenc).  I'm not sure how, but somehow, I got
> passed that, but the application would freeze part way through the
> ripping process.  When I got the message that the application was not
> responding and I responded affirmatively when asked if I wanted to
> terminate it, ps -ax still showed the application as running and I
> couldn't kill it with kill -9.  At this point, if I continued using the
> computer without a reboot, inevitably some other application would
> freeze up on me.  However, if I rebooted and didn't use kaudiocreator
> again, everything seems to be fine.
>
> This time, I did check the list archives, but didn't notice anything
> relevant.  I checked the bug list as well and there appears to be a
> couple of kdemultimedia bugs that have been reported.  Whether or not my
> problem has something to do with the kdemultimedia bugs, I'm not sure.
> However, if anyone has any ideas here, I am open to suggestions.

Nothing obvious comes to mind, except checking dmesg (or
/var/log/messages) for anything ominous occuring at the time of the
trouble.  You could also check ~/.xsession-errors for any error
messages from application(s).

-Richard
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