Brosix

[1richard]

I am trying to set up Brosix on Kubuntu x386 and all it does is flash the iniitial logo and then nothing, can anyone help me?? I want to say goodbye to Skype. Thanks in advance Richard

[james147]

Try running it from a terminal and see what output it gives.

[1richard]

This is the output running from terminal

richard@richard-EL1850:~$ brosix
Cannot open /dev/video1
Brosix(10291)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "GStreamer" , "phonon_gstreamer" :
"Could not find plugin 'GStreamer' for application 'Brosix'"
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Cheese and Skype both see the video

[GreyGeek]

Dible and I checked out Brosix last year. Unfortunately, it was one of the messages that did not survive the data base crash that ocurred during the transfer from the SMF to our current vBulletin system. FORTUNATELY, the Brosix website captured our conversation and posted it on their website:
http://www.brosix.com/case-studies/kubuntuforums/

The situation may have changed since then, but one of the limiting factors in the use of Brosix that we found was that some of its features worked only for Intel video chips. That *may* be your problem.

Have you checked into Google's G+ Hangout? It allows up to 9 other people to have a video conference at the same time, including file transfer and screen sharing.

[1richard]

I have an intel graphics card and intell Pentium processor, but it will not boot into the program at all

[vinnywright]

how did you install it ? I just downloaded it ....but when I right clicked the .deb and open with Gdebi it wanted to install 137 other i386 packages as well so I'm not

VINNY

[1richard]

I installed the 32bit version of 12.04 and this is what I got

richard@richard-EL1850:~$ sudo brosix
[sudo] password for richard:
Cannot open /dev/video1
Home directory /home/richard not ours.
Error: "/tmp/kde-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QStr ing,QString,QString)
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-richard" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "GStreamer" , "phonon_gstreamer" :
"Could not find plugin 'GStreamer' for application 'Brosix'"
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" :
"Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'Brosix'"
Home directory /home/richard not ours.
ALSA lib pulse.c:243pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

Home directory /home/richard not ours.
ALSA lib pulse.c:243pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:551snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:551snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:551snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:551snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream
kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/kded_phononserver.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6Phonon17registerMetaTypesEv
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnkn own", "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files")
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnkn own", "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files")
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnkn own", "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files")
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnkn own", "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files")
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0
MNG error 1029: Chunk out of sequence; chunk TERM; subcode 0:0

[vinnywright]

I asked how did you install it??
sudo brosix is just running it ...and as root no less .......and if you just unpacked the .deb and are runing it like that it is not installed and not surprised it dose not work right

VINNY

[claydoh]

WHY oh WHY are we running gui applications with sudo, or with root privileges?? Please do not, this can lead to permissions problems that could make it not login. Please DO NOT suggest to anyone to run a gui application with sudo, please!


now as to the brosix problem, the error could be that it is wanting to use a video codec/gstreamer plugin that is not present in Kubuntu.You might want to ask on Brosix's forums maybe as well.

Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "GStreamer" , "phonon_gstreamer" :
"Could not find plugin 'GStreamer' for application 'Brosix'"
Brosix(4732)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" :
"Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'Brosix'"

This is the key error message I think.

Brosix installs and opens fine for me, on 64 bit. As this program is 32 bit, my ejumacated guess is something gstreamer related is missing, but what it is I do not know.

[vinnywright]

WHY oh WHY are we running gui applications with sudo, or with root privileges?? Please do not, this can lead to permissions problems that could make it not login. Please DO NOT suggest to anyone to run a gui application with sudo, please!

I did NOT suggest he run it as root .......nor did any one else in the thread .
I just pointed out that he HAD run it as root no less .......implying it was a bad Idea !!

I wanted to know how he installed it as when I started to Gdebi was going to pull in 137 i386 packags (including the ones his output is complaining about.)

I thought maby he just unpacked the .deb and tried to run it because on the brosix website that was one method they described to do it
http://www.brosix.com/download/linux/ although they are talking about the .tar.gz I thought maby he had tried it that way.

VINNY

[claydoh]

No, I wasn't targeting anyone, sorry for that. Just warning folks to please not suggest it. I went into rant mode I guess

[vinnywright]

No, I wasn't targeting anyone, sorry for that. Just warning folks to please not suggest it. I went into rant mode I guess

LOL ok ok and a well deserved rant at that .
I SHOULD have done it my self instead of letting it slide with an of hand comment

VINNY

[1richard]

Hello everyone, I have been working with the Brosix team, and they could not get it to work, so they asked the programers to fix it so that Kubuntu 12.04 will run it. I will let you know when the new version is out, this may be the best replacement for Skype so far, looks good on 10.04