media-sound/beep-media-player-0.9.7.1 crashes when trying to enable media-plugins/bmp-infopipe-1.3 plugin. It crashes with this error: Unable to create symbolic link: File exists When trying to start beep-media-player again, it doesn't start with the same error message: "Unable to create symbolic link: File exists" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge beep-media-player bmp-infopipe 2. run bmp by typing "beep-media-player" in terminal 3. Press Ctrl+P, go to "Plugins" and select checkbox near "Infopipe 1.3" Actual Results: beep-media-player crashed with error message: "Unable to create symbolic link: File exists" and doesn't start again with the same error. Expected Results: Infopipe plugin enabled and working, beep-media-player doesn't crash. emerge --info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.dtiltas.lt/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LC_ALL="lt_LT.utf8" LINGUAS="lt" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp browserplugin bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt curl dbus dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg lame libg++ libwww live logrotate mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nsplugin numeric nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real sdl spell sse sse2 ssl symlink tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vidix vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_lt userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Remove /tmp/xmms* and try again. Note that the only thing I can do to fully resolve this bug is remove the bmp-infopipe plugin from the tree for being broken. (The xchat-xsys plugin tried to interface with infopipe for a few revisions, which is how I know that it is fragile.)
Thank you, this helped.
If you experience additional problems with the use of this plugin, please reopen this bug, and I will remove it from the tree.