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gmusicbrowser doesn't start. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 64bits. In the terminal, I get the following error:

$ gmusicbrowser
print() on closed filehandle $fifofh at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 328.
GStreamer::Interfaces perl module not found -> visuals not available
Reading saved tags in ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ...
Can't read '~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc', aborting...

How can I fix this?

a06e
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2 Answers2

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The gmbrc is corrupted. Try a backup, you have several backups in ~/.config/gmusicbrowser

Sample output

% ls -og ~/.config/gmusicbrowser
insgesamt 34588
-rw-rw-r-- 1 12943689 Jul  5 19:33 gmbrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 12943689 Jul  4 22:24 gmbrc.bak
-rw-rw-r-- 1  1893728 Mai  6 14:54 gmbrc.bak.20150506.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1  1894384 Mai  7 09:34 gmbrc.bak.20150507.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1  1895944 Mai  8 14:49 gmbrc.bak.20150508.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1  1900908 Mai 19 10:17 gmbrc.bak.20150519.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1  1923200 Jul  4 14:49 gmbrc.bak.20150704.xz

Open a terminal and do the following:

mv ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc.xxx
cp ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc.bak ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

After that, start gmusicbrowser again.

If all this does not work, then you will need to delete ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc and start over. Sorry :\

But as little bonus, here is a daily build PPA.

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gmusicbrowser in action with some additionally layouts

A.B.
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Try running touch ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc in terminal. If you get an error about the file already existing try this: sudo chown $USER ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

Grammargeek
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