Bug 210384 - Juk starts(?) but no window ever comes up
Summary: Juk starts(?) but no window ever comes up
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: juk
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Scott Wheeler
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Reported: 2009-10-13 00:25 UTC by Dave Rutherford
Modified: 2021-03-24 01:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Config files which, when in place, cause juk to not start properly (125.71 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-05 01:22 UTC, Dave Rutherford
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Description Dave Rutherford 2009-10-13 00:25:10 UTC
Version:           3.3 (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Running juk from a terminal window, it forks and reports as it rescans my music directories (apparently successfully.) A popup is displayed saying "Phonon: KDE's Multimedia Library/The audio playback device VIA 82C686A/B rev50 with CS4299 (VIA 82C686A/B rev50) does not work./Falling back to default." This goes away and the 'scanning' messages finish scrolling. But no Juk window shows up.

If at this point I strace -p to the juk process, I find it waiting in poll() on some event or other. I can move the mouse around, changing focus to unrelated windows (they're all unrelated since Juk never presents its own window here) but the Juk process receives some notification each time, runs a little, and then goes back to sleep ... but where's the Juk window?

If it matters, I'm not at this moment running KDE as my desktop as I find plasma to be a rather pointless abuse of system resources. But it's all properly installed and up-to-date.

I also tried running 'juk foo.mp3' while in this state and Juk crashes, but for the time being let's call this probably unrelated.
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-10-14 03:55:46 UTC
Mh, the crash sounds like an already reported issue about "crash when second instance is started". 
Juk could be on the SystemTray, and on KDE4.3 it should be using the old/standard FDO systemtray protocol. So the fact that Plasma is not running should not affect that (in fact, it should never affect it). Just in order to test, could you bring up Plasma and then start Juk ?
(Note that I'm not a Juk developer and I don't know its code, I'm just guessing)
Regards
Comment 2 AleX 2009-11-06 10:26:06 UTC
It happens to me too, and I'm using kde4 with plasma and all.
I've also experienced some random crashes when closing the app.

I'm using mandriva 2010.0 kde 4.3.2 which has some backports from 4.3.3 to fix juk crash, but it still crashes somtimes :)
Comment 3 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2009-11-14 10:39:49 UTC
i have no window with juk when i have the current song plasmoid enabled in the plasma
Without launch juk , it has juk in the backend allready.
Comment 4 Dario Andres 2009-12-04 16:53:38 UTC
@Dave: any news about this ?
Comment 5 Dave Rutherford 2009-12-05 01:22:23 UTC
Created attachment 38837 [details]
Config files which, when in place, cause juk to not start properly
Comment 6 Dave Rutherford 2009-12-05 01:24:45 UTC
Thinking about this last night, I wondered if maybe there were too many mp3s in my collection. So just now I moved aside ~/.kde/share/config/jukrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/juk/playlists and started juk, which came right up. Then I added back my music directories, quit and restarted. This also worked.

I'm not sure if the priority should change, though, since what happens to one person can happen to many others. Thus attached find a tarfile of the conf files which did _not_ work. Perhaps some of you could try installing them and see whether juk will fail to initialize.
Comment 7 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2009-12-05 09:18:01 UTC
for me this solves the problem
i have only a crash at exit (i will reply with full debbug)
Comment 8 AleX 2009-12-05 12:00:40 UTC
In my case, when StartDocked=true in the configuration file, the gui won't show, not even the icon in the systray, which is the expected behaviour.
If the variable stays false, no problem, that's why at the moment when I fully exit juk I do it without juk being docked.

And of course, that random crash on close, which I guess it is a separated bug, but it is annoying too.
Comment 9 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 23:00:01 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 10 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 05:34:54 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 11 Michael Pyne 2021-03-24 01:36:59 UTC
I remember this bug and fixed it a few years back. Though I don't seem to have made it easy to find the commit that did it.