Juk and Amarok require unavailable plugin

[pdxken]

After yesterday's yum update juk started giving a pop-up error that says something like this.

Install GStreamer Resources
A program requires an additional plugin for this operation
FILE protocol source
The following plugin is required. Do you want to search for this now?

When I click continue search it can't find what it wants.

Could not find plugin in any configured software source

Amarok does this also.

When run from konsole I get this.

[ken@owl ~]$ juk
[ken@owl ~]$ ** Message: PackageKit: xid = 52428830
** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: FILE protocol source
** Message: PackageKit: non-structure: gstreamer(null)(urisource-file)()(64bit)
** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Cancelled: Aborted by the user

All worked fine before the last update. I recall some libre-office and other being updated but don't remember what else. The music is .ogg so shouldn't have codex issues. Music plays OK but having to close a pop-up after each track and restarting play is annoying.

This is using Fedora20 Jam-KDE spin.

Ken.

[glennzo]

You can see what was installed using the yum history command.

sudo yum history list 

There will be an ID number in the left column and in the 4th column it will show if the transaction was install, update, erase, etc. Using the ID number you can get expanded details of the transaction. For example:

yum history info 22 

Using these tools should give you an idea of what was installed or updated recently and what has suddenly changed.

[pdxken]

Thank you glennzo for that education on yum history. The closest I could figure as relevant was these two.

Updated wavpack-4.60.1-8.fc20.x86_64 @koji-override-0/$releasever
Updated libreport-gtk-2.1.12-2.fc20.x86_64 @updates

But, I don't even know how they may relate.

In the meantime I found this SUSE thread.
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...ds-end-of-song

Deleting ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin (gstreamer cache) seems to have fixed the problem. The file was recreated when I ran juk again so I guess the old one got corrupted some how.

Thanks.
Ken.

[pdxken]

Well, this is embarrassing. The above fix didn't survive a reboot. Next attempt is to replace gstreamer with vlc.

yum install phonon-backend-vlc

Open system settings, click Multimedia, Audio and Video Settings, Music, Backend. Click on VLC then the Prefer button to move VLC above GStreamer then apply. Now log-out and back in (I rebooted). Should now be using VLC-backend instead of GStreamer.

So far this works for me and has survived another reboot. I don't know if this is GStreamer problem related to KDE or JAM.

Ken.