[SOLVED] Can't load gnome-music

Question

Hi!
I've installed Arch Linux with GNOME 3 and if I run gnome-music it doesn't start.
Here's the terminal's output:
[albi@albi-desktop ~]$ gnome-music
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-music", line 38, in <module>
from gnomemusic.application import Application
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/gnomemusic/application.py", line 36, in <module>
from gnomemusic.window import Window
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/gnomemusic/window.py", line 38, in <module>
from gnomemusic.query import Query
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/gnomemusic/query.py", line 32, in <module>
class Query():
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/gnomemusic/query.py", line 35, in Query
GLib.get_user_special_dir(GLib.UserDirectory.DIRECTORY_MUSIC)
TypeError: Argument 0 does not allow None as a value
And here's the version of gnome-session and gnome-music packages.
[albi@albi-desktop ~]$ pacman -Q gnome-session gnome-music
gnome-session 3.12.1-1
gnome-music 3.12.2.1-1
Please let me know if you need other inputs and I'll thank you in advantage for tips to make gnome-music works.
Last edited by AVDuma (2014-08-20 11:23:29)

Answer 1

the lua warning you had was about grilo-pllugins, which optionally depends on lua for some plugins, and it probably wasn't anything critical.
I don't think the tracker message is any kind of critical error either. Looks like it just reports that it was able to connect with tracker service, and everything should be ok.
It's hard to guess why it can't find your mp3 files though, as there's no error messages or anything, but I have few ideas:
- it could be that your missing whatever library gnome-music uses for decoding mp3 files. I looked at the dependecy tree but couldn't figure out what that library could be, but since pretty much all gnome media applications are using gstreamer for that purpose, you could be just missing some gst-plugins. Also you could try if gnome-music can load any .wav .ogg or .flac files for example from your music dir.
- I'm not sure you're allowed to set XDG_MUSIC_DIR outside of your /home. Try creating music directory in your home, copy a few files in it, and change the directory in user-dirs.dirs accordingly.
I think gnome-music 3.12 isn't considered 100% production ready yet, as it is still in early development stages and there could still be some issues and missing features. For now rhythmbox is still the 'default' audio player for gnome.
about the bug reporting. If the bug is something arch linux specific, like missing dependencies, you should report it to arch bug tracker.
if it's a bug in the application itself, like the issue in your first post, it would make more sense to report it directly to gnome bugzilla. Although in that case it might be good idea to test the latest development snapshot (i.e. gnome-music-git from AUR) to check that the bug hasn't been fixed already.
also, please use LC_ALL=C when posting application output to get error messages in english, and use thumbnails when posting images: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code