> Have you installed any XMMS plugins that might try to use aalib (libaa1)?
No. At least, not consiously. > Maybe it's useful to send us the listing of ~/.xmms/Plugins This directory is empty. I have even renamed ~/.xmms and let it be recreated. The error messages were still there. Then I purged libaa1 (whose configuration files turned out to be left somewhere on the system). Then I started xmms $ xmms & [2] 9101 Then I closed xmms. No error messages, as you see. $ [1]- Done xmms [2]+ Done xmms But then I started xmms and closed it once more. $ xmms & [1] 9113 $ libaa.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file ordirectory libaa.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory libaa.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Message: device: default [1]+ Done xmms Notice that the error messages appeared only for the second start. Then I looked whether the file libaa.so.1 was installed anywhere. $ locate libaa.so.1 $ locate libaa.so /usr/lib/libaa.so $ > 1) Run xmms -> no error messages > 2) Purge aalib1, aalib1-dev > 3) Run xmms -> no error messages-- As it turned out, I actually have the packges aalib1 (Version 1.4p5-22)and aalib1-dev (Version 1.4p5-22), and at least 13 more packages depend on them directly. I'm reluctant about deinstalling all of them and then installing once again. Here is some info on the package xmms: $ aptitude show xmms Package: xmms State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2 Priority: optional Section: sound Maintainer: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 6672k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libice6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0), libsm6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0), libssl0.9.7, libx11-6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0), libxi6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0) Recommends: libasound2 (> 1.0.8), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libesd0 (>= 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.29-1), libmikmod2 (>= 3.1.10), libogg0 (>= 1.1.2), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.0), libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.0), xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), unzip Conflicts: x11ampg, x11amp, xmms-vorbis, alsa-xmms Replaces: x11ampg, x11amp, xmms-vorbis, alsa-xmms Provides: alsa-xmms, xmms-vorbis, x11amp, x11ampg, mp3-decoder $ aptitude show aalib1 Package: aalib1 State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.4p5-22 Priority: optional Section: libs Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 172k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgpmg1 (>= 1.19.6-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (> 4.1.0), slang1 (> 1.4.9dbs-4) $ aptitude show aalib1-dev Package: aalib1-dev State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.4p5-22 Priority: optional Section: libdevel Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 594k Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2-18), libx11-dev, slang1-dev (> 1.3.0-0), libncurses5-dev I'm using sarge with kernel 2.6.13.4.2.pm (built by Max-Planck-Institute). It is doing well. It occured to me that you are using the -5 revision of xmms which is not available for sarge. (Neither on backports.org) Regards, Sasha. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]