Can't start Entertainer

Richard, my guess is that FEED_DB doesn't exist. Because you did a manual copy of the cfg folder into .config/entertainer, you might have tricked the code (because it's supposed to do it automatically for you, plus a bunch of other stuff).

I would suggest the following:

1) Delete .config/entertainer
2) Run `./entertainer-content-manager` and set your media folders (note that during this step, the code will recreate .config/entertainer
3) Run `./entertainer`

From you output that your provided, it looks like you did the python setup.py install so you can drop the ./ from my sample commands above.

Matt, thankyou very much for your advice. I have tried what you have suggested, now when I try and run entertainer-content-manager i see the messages:

Couldn't find configuration Data. Execution aborted.

I look forward to hearing from you.

        try:
            # Copy configuration data from a dev branch if we can
            if os.path.exists(SOURCE_CONFIG['branch']):
                shutil.copytree(SOURCE_CONFIG['branch'], config_dir)
                create_cache_hierarchy(config_dir)
            # Install configuration data from the hardcoded package path
            elif os.path.exists(SOURCE_CONFIG['package']):
                shutil.copytree(SOURCE_CONFIG['package'], config_dir)
                create_cache_hierarchy(config_dir)
            else:
                print "Couldn't find configuration data. Execution aborted."
                sys.exit(1)
        except OSError:
            print "Couldn't copy configuration data to %s. Execution aborted." \
                % config_dir
            sys.exit(1)

Richard, your error message most likely came from this section of code in the Configuration class. What it indicates (since I wrote it) is that it can't find the cfg directory from either a branch location or a package location.

Can you please tell me the procedure that you used to install Entertainer? Did you follow the procedures described on the wiki? Also, if you used `python setup.py install`, could you please verify for me that /usr/share/entertainer/cfg exists? Thanks.

Yes, I did use the Wiki instructions after downloading the .tar.gz file.

I used sudo python setup.py install.

The foder /usr/share/entertainer doesn't exist at all.

Again thank you very musch for your help with all this.

Can I also add, I was originally getting an error when trying to install I changed an entry in the seup.py as per one of your answers to a similar issue Bug #392934 reported by Keheliya Gallaba on 2009-06-27 (Activity log).

I changed;

line 28 of setup.py :
        target = os.path.join("/", "usr", "share", "icons", "hicolor")
instead of
        target = os.path.join(self.root, "usr", "share", "icons", "hicolor")

Richard, I did some research about the `python setup.py install` method for Python 2.6 (which is what 9.04 uses) and I have a pretty good theory about what happened. But before I go down that road, could you please run the install again and paste the output into this question page so I can examine it? (note that it may be quite long, so you might want to redirect the output to a file like `sudo python setup.py install &> ~/Desktop/install_out.txt`).

Thanks.

Please see output below.

running install

gzip: docs/entertainer.1: No such file or directory

running build
running build_py
running
build_scripts
running
install_lib
running
install_scripts
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/entertainer-backend to 755
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/entertainer-preferences to 755
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/entertainer to 755
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/entertainer-content-manager to 755
running install_data
copying locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
copying locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/entertainer.mo -> /usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Entertainer-0.4.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Entertainer-0.4.egg-info
Updating icon cache in /usr/share/icons/hicolor
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.

Richard,

I think that the problem is that Python 2.6 behaves differently with the setup.py file than it did in 2.5. In 2.5, files would install into /usr/share, not /usr/local/share as your log has listed. The Configuration class in entertainerlib/utils/configuration.py uses a hardcode path to find the cfg directory so that it can copy the data. Since the installation location has changed, /usr/share/entertainer/cfg doesn't exist. The correct location would be /usr/local/share/entertainer/cfg.

I will file a bug about this. In the mean time, you could edit SOURCE_CONFIG dictionary in entertainerlib/utils/configuration.py (it's near the top of the file) so that 'package' is set to /usr/local/share/entertainer/cfg. Once you do that, then you could reinstall, and Entertainer should work at that point in time.

Thanks for reporting this problem. We haven't done a release in a while so it seems we have some work to do to fix our setup.py file.

Let me know if you have any further issues.

-Matt

Matt, thanks for the info.

The install goes smoothly I can start the Backend and content manager.

When I then go to start Entertainer I see the following.

Entertainer backend starting...

(/usr/local/bin/entertainer:12159): Clutter-Gst-WARNING **: Unable to create playbin GST actor.

(/usr/local/bin/entertainer:12159): Clutter-Gst-WARNING **: Failed to initiate suitable playback pipeline.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/entertainer", line 12, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/entertainerlib/frontend/__init__.py", line 33, in main
    frontend_client = FrontendClient()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/entertainerlib/frontend/frontend_client.py", line 47, in __init__
    self.quit_frontend)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/entertainerlib/frontend/gui/user_interface.py", line 95, in __init__
    self.config.get_stage_width(), self.config.get_stage_height())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/entertainerlib/frontend/media_player.py", line 66, in __init__
    self.bus = self.playbin.get_bus()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_bus'

At this point nothing else happens.

Richard

Richard,

The playbin is part of gstreamer. I guess there is a good chance that you are missing some of the gstreamer packages. Make sure you download the good, bad, and ugly gstreamer packages (the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" meta-package might contain everything, but keep in mind that it may pull in a bunch of unnecessary stuff too).

As a disclaimer, I think the ugly package might have codecs that are possibly controversial with patents. If your country has patent issues, I can take no responsibility for any patent violations.