Bug#428177: libao2: Problem with arts/mcop, despite default_driver=alsa09

[Johannes Bittner]

Package: libao2
Version: 0.8.8-2
Severity: important


Hello,

first of all, my libao.conf says: default_driver=alsa09

When trying to start zsnes, which uses libao, the following messages
appear:

| Creating link /home/theclaw/.kde/socket-speedy.
| can't create mcop directory

...so it seems zsnes tries to use arts through libao, but this doesn't work
(because there aren't any KDE daemons started I think - confusingly,
when I start any KDE application like k3b or amarok, zsnes starts
correctly and uses ALSA). 

I looked in the zsnes source-code whether there is any occurence of the
string "arts" (I thought maybe the zsnes-developers did something which
overwrites default_driver), but no success. So I think this problem is
libao-related.

I'm using XFCE 4.4 if that matters. The following arts-packages are
installed on my system:

ii  arts                             1.5.7-2                            
ii  libarts1c2a                      1.5.7-2                            
ii  libartsc0                        1.5.7-2                            
ii  libartsc0-dev                    1.5.7-2     

BTW, moving /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/libarts.so somewhere else seems to be
a workaround for that problem.

kind regrads,
johannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libao2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libao2 recommends no packages.

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