Bug#429492: vorbis-tools: bad error message about mcop directory

[Jeff Abrahamson]

Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.1.1-11
Severity: normal


On running ogg123 on a newly built machine (with home directory, in
case it matters, from a different machine: old machine was 32-bit, new
is 64-bit), ogg123 fails to run:

  jeff at aragorn:Philadelphia_Chickens $ ogg123 06.Snuggle_Puppy_-_Eric_Stolz.ogg 
  Creating link /home/jeff/.kde/socket-aragorn.
  can't create mcop directory
  jeff at aragorn:Philadelphia_Chickens $ 

strace suggests that the error message is not correct, though:

   ...
   close(7)                                = 0
   stat("/home/jeff/.kde", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
   uname({sys="Linux", node="aragorn", ...}) = 0
   lstat("/home/jeff/.kde/socket-aragorn", 0x7fffbefd3ed0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
   write(2, "can\'t create mcop directory\n", 28can't create mcop directory
   ) = 28
   exit_group(1)                           = ?
   Process 4205 detached

The process is checking for .kde/socket-aragorn, which it doesn't
find, but it hasn't actually tried to create ~/.mcop (which exists).

   jeff at aragorn:.kde $ pwd
   /home/jeff/.kde
   jeff at aragorn:.kde $ ls -ld
   drwxr-xr-x 4 jeff jeff 4096 2006-06-12 01:13 ./
   jeff at aragorn:.kde $ ls -l
   total 8
   drwxr-xr-x 3 jeff jeff 4096 1999-08-13 22:56 apps/
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 jeff jeff   22 2007-06-16 15:11 cache-astra -> /var/tmp/kdecache-jeff
   drwxr-xr-x 9 jeff jeff 4096 2005-12-08 17:19 share/
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 jeff jeff   13 2007-06-16 15:11 tmp-astra -> /tmp/kde-jeff
   jeff at aragorn:.kde $ 

Typing "mkdir $HOME/.kde/socket-aragorn" causes ogg123 to work fine.
(It doesn't try to create a .mcop directory under .kde in the end.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vorbis-tools depends on:
ii  libao2                    0.8.8-2        Cross Platform Audio Output Librar
ii  libc6                     2.5-9          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.15.5-1       Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libflac7                  1.1.2-6        Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libogg0                   1.1.3-2        Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  liboggflac3               1.1.2-6        Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libspeex1                 1.1.12-3       The Speex Speech Codec
ii  libvorbis0a               1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2             1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3            1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi

vorbis-tools recommends no packages.

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