My system is one updated stable gentoo. I have latest SDL and Python packages (but only stable). Then I emerged pydance. The emerge worked, but whenever I try to run pydance, I get this output: $ pydance 1 joystick(s) found. Joystick 0 initialized: 6 axes, 12 buttons. Loaded input configuration. Traceback (most recent call last): File "./pydance.py", line 36, in ? import dance File "/usr/share/games/pydance/dance.py", line 9, in ? from player import Player File "/usr/share/games/pydance/player.py", line 5, in ? import arrows File "/usr/share/games/pydance/arrows.py", line 10, in ? class AbstractArrow(pygame.sprite.Sprite): File "/usr/share/games/pydance/arrows.py", line 17, in AbstractArrow "assist-%s.ogg" % d)) pygame.error: mixer system not initialized Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6. 12.5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12.5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/ share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb / usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/ share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/gentoo/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/gentoo/tmp_portage" PORTDIR="/gentoo/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr clamav crypt cups curl divx4linux dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gzip idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww live lm_sensors mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-htdocs nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime rar readline recode scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xine xinerama xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY I have the following versions installed: dev-lang/python-2.4.2 dev-python/pygame-1.6.2 media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 media-libs/sdl-gfx-2.0.13 media-libs/sdl-image-1.2.3-r1 media-libs/sdl-mixer-1.2.6 media-libs/sdl-net-1.2.5 media-libs/sdl-sound-1.0.1-r1 media-libs/sdl-ttf-2.0.7
can I see the output from "emerge -evp world" please?
(In reply to comment #1) > can I see the output from "emerge -evp world" please? Of course! 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Failure to do so may result in failed or improper merges. A simple 'emerge -u portage' is sufficient. 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What's the output of the command "groups" ?
(In reply to comment #3) > What's the output of the command "groups" ? wheel floppy cron audio cdrom video games cdrw apache usb users scanner
dunno. Works fine for me. Try logging out completely and logging back in.
(In reply to comment #5) > dunno. Works fine for me. Try logging out completely and logging back in. I already did that too. I think the problem is inside pydance source code. I found somewhere on Google (lost URL, sorry) that "aliens" demo from pygame was printing the same message. The problem was that "aliens" was trying to use mixer module, even if that failed to initialize. The solution was a patch that added a check if the mixer module was initialized, before using it. I tried now aliens.py example from pygame-1.6.2 and it worked with no problems. Anyway, pydance still don't work.
Try it with sdl-mixer-1.2.6-r1
Updating to sdl-mixer-1.2.6-r1 solved it. I wonder how many time until this version becomes stable. Thank you.
