K9copy?

[bhobjj]

I thought I would give this a go.
K9copy (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/) very nice looking prog that will resize a copy of a DVD so that it can fit on a 4.7 GB DVD+-R . It installed with no problems and started up fine. I gave it a test run. The copy process seemed to slow down towards the end, and I looked at the output in xterm:

endless messages:


Authentication of this client was not successful
Connection dropped
Launched ok, pid = 7896
There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...
Fatal communication error with a client
Authentication of this client was not successful
Connection dropped

Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running).
If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files:

/tmp/ksocket-bob/Arts_SoundServerV2
/tmp/ksocket-bob/Arts_SoundServer
/tmp/ksocket-bob/Arts_SimpleSoundServer
/tmp/ksocket-bob/Arts_PlayObjectFactory
/tmp/ksocket-bob/Arts_AudioManager

Fatal communication error with a client
Authentication of this client was not successful
Connection dropped
Fatal communication error with a client

etc,etc,etc
scrolling by the screen.
So I ran top (http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/top.1.html) and found more than 75 "artsd" processes running! I have never seen this before.
WTF!

K9copy looks like a fine program. Why does it need artsd?

Thanks,
-BoB

[benjaminq]

Hm, you can go to the KDE control Center and deactivate any sound notifications for k9copy (maybe???) ... *checking that* ... nope, this is not possible.

So what you can do prior to starting k9copy is do a killall -9 artsd in a terminal. This will wipe all artsd processes from the system. One can also deactivate the artsd in case one wants to have his KDE being quiet, all the necessary apps use either mplayer gstreamer or xine anyway ...

The last time I used k9copy (a while ago, I still have it installed but I do not make heavy use of it) I did not experience this problem. Does it work withh all instances of artsd killed like mentioned above?

Benjamin

[bluesdog]

I've only used k9copy a couple of times... worked flawlessly, and didn't seem to have anything to do with artsd -- I checked top and ksysguard...

Is there a way to make k9copy provide debugging info?