PPM non-functional in Fossapup64 (won't load..!)

[mikewalsh]

Morning, guys'n'gals.

Now then. What's up with the PPM in Fossapup64?

I go to start it, I get the wee splashbox saying 'Loading.....', and that's it. Splashbox sits there for ever, and nowt happens. I may have missed this in the old thread, but I haven't really got time to peruse 25+ pages of posts ATM, unfortunately.

If anybody has any 'pointers' on this one, 'twould be much appreciated.


Mike.

[666philb]

hi mikewalsh,

are you using an old save?

[dogFellow]

try #ppm
in a console

[mikewalsh]

hi mikewalsh,

are you using an old save?

Hi, Phil.

Nope, it's a first-ever run. Only just created a save-file for the first time, mate.

Curious. Trying dogFellow's suggestion:-

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ppm

...in the terminal, it starts. Go into usr/local/petget, click on pkg_chooser.sh, it starts. Go into /usr/share/applications & click on the .desktop entry, it starts. But from Menu->Setup.....no dice. Odd....

[Sometime later...]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fixed it. Built a new Menu entry - called it "PupPacMan"; neat, huh? - and it now fires up, sweet as a nut. Sod's law, innit? (Couldn't see anything wrong with the original. It would fire up in the /usr/share/applications directory, it would fire-up from the pinboard. But it WOULD not run from the Menu, no matter how many times I ran fixmenus & restarted "X".)

Yet mine does. Weird, huh? Ne'm mind. It's sorted.


Mike.

[666philb]

just a thought mike,

if you are using your posh computer with the nvidia card the default nouveau driver has been an absolute pain getting it to work nice with fossapups compositor with all sorts of quirks popping up including certain gtkdialogs crashing. installing the nvidia driver is definitely advised if you have an nvidia card/chip.

[mikewalsh]

@666philb :-

just a thought mike,

if you are using your posh computer with the nvidia card the default nouveau driver has been an absolute pain getting it to work nice with fossapups compositor with all sorts of quirks popping up including certain gtkdialogs crashing. installing the nvidia driver is definitely advised if you have an nvidia card/chip.

Umm, yeah; I HAD noticed a few 'quirks', you might say; I've never seen such a lazy drag'n'drop action in my life..! Seems to move when IT feels like it, doesn't it?

It's very early days, ATM; I've no idea how far I'll go with it, yet.

Does Get-Nvida work OK here? I probably will have a go at installing the official driver; it's certainly made an improvement to some of the other pups I run.


Mike.

[666philb]

nvidia drivers are in quickpet .... getnvidia works to an extent but really needs updating to work properly. the .sfs files don't work without some tweaking and it misses some more modern stuff.

so use the .pets in quickpet

[mikewalsh]

nvidia drivers are in quickpet .... getnvidia works to an extent but really needs updating to work properly. the .sfs files don't work without some tweaking and it misses some more modern stuff.

so use the .pets in quickpet

@666philb :-

Right you are; OK. I take it the pets are install & re-boot, yes?


Mike.

[666philb]

yes ... just check which one you need

[mikewalsh]

@666philb :-

Wooah!! That's tamed the beastie, right enough. Nice one.

Well, I'll say this, just as an addendum to this thread. This is so far shaping up VERY nicely, Phil. Thanks for putting the effort in for the 32-bit_compat_libs SFS; I know it's been hard work on this one. But as things stand, absolutely everything is behaving itself. Even networking; after several re-boots, it's still holding. It's not so far displaying the connection aggro I was getting with Bionic; right from day one, that never worked properly with this new hardware.

I've never before come across a Puppy that demanded a router re-boot, every time you fired it up! Everything else ran sweetly, mind you.....it just wouldn't connect without fighting it every step of the way.

One little niggle; DeaDBeeF will not load my RadioTunes .pls 'stream' file. It's the first time I've had DeaDBeeF fail on that.....and I prefer it to any other, 'cos the equalizer's so good. It's not even seeing it. Any ideas?


Mike.

[666philb]

hi mike,

.pls problem should be fixed quickpet >> updates

[mikewalsh]

Hi, Phil.

Wish I could say that's fixed it, mate, but all I'm getting is this:-

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root# deadbeef
starting deadbeef 1.8.4
server_start
INFO: unlink socket: No such file or directory
searching for GUI plugins in /root/.local/lib64/deadbeef
searching for GUI plugins in /root/.local/lib/deadbeef
searching for GUI plugins in /usr/lib/deadbeef
load_plugin_dir /usr/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 58 files
found gui plugin ddb_gui_GTK2.so
added GTK2 gui plugin
found gui plugin ddb_gui_GTK3.so
added GTK3 gui plugin
load gui plugin
checking GUI plugin: GTK2
found selected GUI plugin: GTK2
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_gui_GTK2.so
loading plugins from /root/.local/lib64/deadbeef
loading plugins from /root/.local/lib/deadbeef
loading plugins from /usr/lib/deadbeef
load_plugin_dir /usr/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 58 files
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/aac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/adplug.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/alac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/alsa.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/artwork.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/cdda.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/converter.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/converter_gtk2.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/converter_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/dca.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_ao.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_dumb.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_mono2stereo.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_shn.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ddb_soundtouch.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/dsp_libsrc.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ffap.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/ffmpeg.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/flac.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/gme.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/hotkeys.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/in_sc68.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/lastfm.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/m3u.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/mms.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/mp3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/mpris.so
MPRIS Debug Info: Load...
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/musepack.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/notify.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/nullout.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/opus.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/oss.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/pltbrowser_gtk2.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/pltbrowser_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/psf.so
found newer version of plugin "psf" (PSF player using Audio Overload SDK), replacing
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/rg_scanner.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/shellexec.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/shellexecui_gtk2.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/shellexecui_gtk3.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/sid.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/sndfile.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/supereq.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/tta.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vfs_curl.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vfs_zip.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vorbis.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/vtx.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wavpack.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wildmidi.so
loading plugin /usr/lib/deadbeef/wma.so
starting plugin GTK2 user interface
starting plugin AAC player
starting plugin Adplug player
starting plugin ALAC player
starting plugin ALSA output plugin
starting plugin Album Artwork
starting plugin Audio CD player
starting plugin Converter
starting plugin Converter GTK2 UI
starting plugin Converter GTK3 UI
starting plugin dts decoder
starting plugin DUMB module player
starting plugin Mono to stereo
starting plugin Shorten player
starting plugin Soundtouch
starting plugin Resampler (Secret Rabbit Code)
starting plugin Monkey's Audio (APE) decoder
starting plugin FLAC decoder
starting plugin Game-Music-Emu player
starting plugin Hotkey manager
starting plugin SC68 player (Atari ST SNDH YM2149)
starting plugin last.fm scrobbler
starting plugin M3U and PLS support
starting plugin mms vfs
starting plugin MP3 player
starting plugin MPRIS v1 and v2 plugin
starting plugin MusePack decoder
starting plugin OSD Notify
starting plugin Null output plugin
starting plugin Opus player
starting plugin OSS output plugin
starting plugin Playlist browser GTK2
starting plugin Playlist browser GTK3
starting plugin PSF player using Audio Overload SDK
starting plugin ReplayGain Scanner
starting plugin Shell commands
starting plugin Shellexec GTK2 UI
starting plugin Shellexec GTK3 UI
MPRIS Debug Info: MPRIS V1 Starting...
starting plugin SID player
starting plugin WAV/PCM player
starting plugin SuperEQ
starting plugin tta decoder
starting plugin cURL vfs
starting plugin ZIP vfs
starting plugin Ogg Vorbis decoder
starting plugin VTX player
starting plugin WavPack decoder
starting plugin WildMidi player
starting plugin WMA player
starting plugin stdio vfs
starting plugin FFMPEG audio player
selected output plugin: ALSA output plugin
convgui: gtkui plugin not found
plugin Converter GTK3 UI failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated.
plugin Playlist browser GTK3 failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated.
shellexecui: can't find gtkui plugin
plugin Shellexec GTK3 UI failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated.
resume: track -1 pos -1.000000 playlist -1
gtkui plugin compiled for gtk version: 2.24.32
MPRIS Debug Info: Playlist changed.
MPRIS Debug Info: V1: emit status change signl.
MPRIS Debug Info: V1: emit status change signl.
MPRIS Debug Info: MPRIS V2 Starting...

(deadbeef:29904): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 16:21:10.326: g_dbus_connection_emit_signal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

(deadbeef:29904): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 16:21:10.326: g_dbus_connection_emit_signal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
MPRIS Debug Info: name acquired: org.mpris.deadbeef
MPRIS Debug Info: name acquired: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.deadbeef

Looks as though it's summat to do with Glib-gio & dbus. What d'you reckon?


Mike.

[666philb]

the update seems to be working fine here both on my present install and also when booting pfix=/ram a test radio .pls works

your log is showing an issue with an MPRIS plugin which you've added and is probably crashing deadbeef as it's for a different version.
can you remove it and any other deadbeef additions to test the new version and your .pls.

[mikewalsh]

@666philb :-

All sorted now, Phil.

I'd installed a 64-bit version of 0.72 (yours from Xenialpup64, IIRC) which has worked for me in the past when I've had this issue. Anyway; I removed all traces of DeaDBeeF from the system - it leaves a lot of stuff behind, doesn't it? Like the whole of the plug-ins directory.....with a mash-up of plugins from both versions, both the built-in AND 0.72....including that MPRIS thing, which was in the older 0.72 package. It was a bit messy, if I'm honest..!

One re-boot later, and a clean "install" of today's upload to the Fossapup repo, and it's now behaving itself correctly. Listening to 'Uptempo Jazz' on RadioTunes now.....

Thanks. Appreciated, mi amigo..!


Mike.