timidity randomly complaines about missing configuration file. The error message is: current/timidity.cfg: No such file or directory timidity: Can't read any configuration file. Please check /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg The /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg is there and is a simlink to /etc/timidity.cfg which exitst and is world readable. This only happens some times and I was not able to find a condition under which it reproduces. It also happens with earlier versions. The useflags I use are: X alsa -esd flac gtk gtk2 ncurses portaudio vorbis -ao -arts -emacs -jack -motif -nas -oss -slang -speex -tcltk
How does your filesystem layout look like? (the output from #mount)
nothing unusual: /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda3 on /mnt/usb type ext3 (ro)
Does this problem ever occure of you start/stop the service by hand, or does it just occure when it is ran during normal bootup from init?
I don't understund your question. I use timidity only to some times play a midi file not as a service or anything.
I see. Then you can this simple thing: strace -o log timidity mymidifil.mid and you can see all then kernel calls being stored in the file log, and you can submit a log file here, where timidity fails to find its config
Created attachment 86860 [details] strace -o log timidity atleast /user/share/current/timidity.cfg and ~/.timidity/current/timidity.cfg exist, although ENOENT ist returned from the stat64 syscall. Timidity is the only programm where I experience such behaviour. Strange..
Have you configured your system correctly? At my system, it is configured like this: gentoo-2 .timidity # pwd /root/.timidity gentoo-2 .timidity # ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 2 2005 current -> /usr/share/timidity/current gentoo-2 timidity # pwd /usr/share/timidity gentoo-2 timidity # ls -l total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Aug 2 2005 current -> /usr/share/timidity/eawpatches drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 8192 Aug 2 2005 eawpatches lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 7 10:36 timidity.cfg -> /etc/timidity.cfg
Created attachment 99810 [details] second strace
Comment on attachment 99810 [details] second strace I'm experiencing the same problem... here is my strace if it can be usefull strace -o log timidity /var/www/localhost/htdocs/musica.mid
I somehow had fixed this a while ago... it was somethin in the /etc/timidity.cfg but I don't excactly remember what it was. Anyway here is what my tymidity.cfg look like now: dir /usr/share/timidity dir ~/.timidity source ~/.timidity/current/timidity.cfg hope this helps
For me, the symlink from 'current' to 'eawpatches' (or whatever) was missing; adding it resolved the issue.
I'll consider this resolved as this is fixed in -r3, that by using eselect-timidity now always have the current symlink proper. I'll see to get a stabilisation request open soon.
