Bug#440040: mpg321 aborts with "can't create mcop directory"

[Reinhard Tartler]

Package: libao2
Version: 0.8.8-3
Severity: normal

I'm trying to play an mp3 file with mpg321, which is using libao for
audio output. It fails like this:

>> mpg123 Type\ O\ Negative\ -\ 07\ -\ World\ Coming\ Down.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title  : World Coming Down               Artist: Type O Negative
Album  : World Coming Down               Year  : 1999
Comment:                                 Genre : Metal

Playing MPEG stream from Type O Negative - 07 - World Coming Down.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
Creating link /home/inf4/tartler/.kde/socket-faui48a.
can't create mcop directory

My ~/.libao:

>> cat ~/.libao
default_driver=oss

I need to use oss since alsa is not available on sunray systems.

I think this bug is actually a dupe of #390335, which has been reported
against xine since some time.

Since arts is pretty dead as upstream by now, I'd suggest to just
disable arts support from libao for now.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4-gernoth-64bit (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libao2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libao2 recommends no packages.

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