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Re: Music app refuses to start

 

here it is:

less ~/.config/com.ubuntu.music/com.ubuntu.music.conf
[PlayerSettings]
repeat=false
shuffle=false

[StartupSettings]
firstRun=false
queueIndex=5
tabIndex=2

less
~/.local/share/com.ubuntu.music/Databases/2be3974e34f63282a99a37e9e2077ee4.ini

[General]
Description=StorageDatabase
Driver=QSQLITE
EstimatedSize=1000000
Name=music-app-playlists
Version=1.0

On 23/06/16 13:49, Alexander wrote:
> HELP NEEDED!!!! Please read below where it says ANYBODY, if you are
> so inclined. Thank you.
> 
> On 22.06.2016 21:33, Sigvard Lyth wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alexander.
>>
>> Are you using a file manager app to look for them? Because files
>> beginning with a . are hidden. So you need to turn that on to see
>> them. I can't find a way to do that right now. :-(
>>
> SSH via Terminal... Using Linux private and professional since 2006.
> The directories are not there and manually creating the two
> directories mentioned does NOT do the trick - unfortunately. I need
> something to put in there perhaps? I don't know how the directories
> went away but they are gone! It must be a bug but I cant find any
> relating. Will you help me futher investigate? A phone without being
> able to listen to music suxx bad - it is what i have been using it
> for mostly.  
>>
>> But use the Go to function in the right upper menu, and go to
>> '/home/phablet/.config/' and maneuver regularly from there.
>>
> 
> Thank you for your idea but it does not help me. Can you or ANYBODY
> send me your files from the "~/.config/com.ubuntu.music/" 
> directory? And perhaps also from "~/.local/share/com.ubuntu.music/" ?
> 
> Thak you so much! It would help me to move forward.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>> Den ons. 22. jun. 2016, 15.47 skrev Alexander
>> <alexanderkinne@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alexanderkinne@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>
>>     The directories you mentioned do not exist on my phone?!? I
>>     uninstalled the app and installed it again. Same issue and the
>>     directories still don't exist. Perhaps somehow they went away
>>     and the app does not check on first run because it comes
>>     installed as default?
>>
>>     How can I manually create those directories and put into them
>>     what the app expects to be starting? Can somebody with a
>>     Aquaris 5 just send me the contents of those two directories
>>     from his phone so i can see what happens? Seems the way
>>     forward or are there other ideas?
>>
>>     Cheers Alexander
>>
>>
>>     On 22.06.2016 14:06, Andrew Hayzen wrote:
>>>     Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>>     Firstly I'm sorry to hear that you are having this bad
>>>     experience and hope we can resolve the issue.
>>>
>>>     The locations that the music app stores configuration files
>>>     are as follows:
>>>     ~/.config/com.ubuntu.music/          (for general settings)
>>>     ~/.local/share/com.ubuntu.music/   (for databases of your
>>>     playlists)
>>>
>>>     This issue could be due to a stale lock file bug [0], I would
>>>     be interested to know if there are any files ending .lock in
>>>     those directories (if there are try deleting just the .lock
>>>     files and relaunching the app).
>>>
>>>     Otherwise try deleting all the files in the directories to
>>>     see if the app launches correctly (in this case it might be
>>>     useful to take a copy of the files so we can debug later).
>>>
>>>     Let me know if you need additional help removing the relevant
>>>     files.
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>
>>>     Andrew
>>>
>>>     0 -
>>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1576989
>>>
>>>     On 22 June 2016 at 12:26, Alexander
>>>     <<mailto:alexanderkinne@xxxxxxxxx>alexanderkinne@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hello folks!
>>>
>>>         The Music App refuses to start past the load screen and
>>>         just shuts down. Aquaris E5, OTA 11.
>>>
>>>         I would like to try and delete all its settings and files
>>>         and have it re-initialise to see if it helps, but I can't
>>>         seem to find all the files.
>>>
>>>         Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>>         Cheers,
>>>
>>>         Alexander
>>>
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