Error message on start: "Quod Libet could not find the 'filesrc' GStreamer element. Check your GStreamer installation." I'm not sure if this is a bug in gstreamer or in quodlibet; I don't know enough about gstreamer to tell. If that's the case, just say so and close/move this. Easily reproducible. Output when run from console: $ quodlibet Supported formats: mp3, mp4, mpc, wav, xiph Loaded song library. Opening audio device. /usr/share/quodlibet/qltk/dbus_.py:11: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon. dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API. Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2). If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via <dbus@lists.freedesktop.org>. from dbus.dbus_bindings import DBusException
Created attachment 113689 [details] emerge --info My emerge --info output.
...facing the same problem. Recompiling dbus-python, gstreamer and quodlibet didn't help... :-( Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r1, 2.6.20 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.20-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en en_US cs cs_CZ" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog libg++ midi ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US cs cs_CZ" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
After tracing the code, it looks like the gst.elment_make_from_uri call near the end of player.py is failing. Changing the line from if gst.element_make_from_uri(gst.URI_SRC, "file://", ""): to if gst.element_make_from_uri(gst.URI_SRC, "file:///home/whatever", ""): allowed quodlibet to start and and things seemed to work fine. I don't know enough about gstreamer to know whether this is a bug with gstreamer or if quodlibet is doing stuff wrong, but I can play music now. Also, I don't really know what that change does, so it could break some other stuff.
This might be an issue with missing media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs, which is currently optional DEPEND under gnome use flag. See if emerging gst-plugins-gnomevfs helps.
Indeed a user reported on the forums that emerging gst-plugins-gnomevfs made QL work again, so I believe the dependency should be changed from optional to mandatory. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-548961.html
Apparently this was caused by a bug in gstreamer, and should not require a dependency of gst-plugins-gnomevfs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421167
should be fixed in 1.0
