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xmms not openinng its windows



Hi there,

I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. 

The symptom:
I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and
nothing happens.
I run ps -auwx and i can see 4 or so instances of xmms running.
I notice that the xmms gnome-applet has changed it's face (as it does
when xmms is running) from a logo to the play, pause, etc. buttons.
I click on play, and music starts coming out of my headphones.
I can also run xmms-shell and connect to xmms, manipulate the playlist,
play, pause, etc.  

Basically, xmms is running, and all other programs that interact with
xmms work, but I don't see the windows.

I thought it might be a bad skin, but I removed my Skins directory from
within .xmms and the same thing happens (with the directory being
recreated empty on first run)

This happened today, and two days ago, but not yesterday.  Logging out
and logging back in did not help, nor did restarting enlightenment.  I
havn't tried rebooting.

I have only recently started using xmms (at work) because I only
recently got a sound card.  But it seemed to be working for a while
there.

I run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade almost daily.

I tried downgrading xmms from 1.2.7-1.1 to 1.2.7-1, but nothing changed.  

When I run xmms from the command line, I get the following output:
libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libvorbisfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Neither of these packages seem like they would be needed for xmms.

I tried to get more information by running 'strace xmms' but it spewed 
endless text to the screen -- I don't know what part of that might be
useful.

I am running debian sarge on a PIII-750MHz with 128MB RAM.

I use enlightenment and Gnome as my environment.

Packages related to xmms:
ii  xmms           1.2.7-1        Versatile X audio player that looks like Win
ii  xmms-infinity  0.2-2.1        A full-screen visualation effect for XMMS
ii  xmms-infopipe  1.3-2          General plugin for XMMS, reports real-time i
ii  xmms-iris      0.10-1         An advanced OpenGL visualization plugin for 
ii  xmms-kjofol    0.95.0debian-6 XMMS remote that uses K-Jofol's skins
ii  xmms-msa       0.5.5-3        spectrum analyzer plugin for XMMS with skin 
ii  xmms-qbble     1.2-5          XMMS playlist manager with search support
ii  xmms-shell     0.2.2-1        XMMS Shell - Interface to control XMMS from 
ii  xmms-volnorm   0.8.1-2        XMMS plugin that gives all songs the same vo
un  xmms-vorbis    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xmms-wmdiscotu 1.3-1          Tux dancing to the music played by xmms
ii  xmp-xmms       2.0.4d-3       An experimental XMP plugin for XMMS.

Other packages of interest:
ii  enlightenment          0.16.5-6               The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  xfree86-common         4.2.1-3                X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii  gnome-core             1.4.2-1                Common files for GNOME core apps
ii  gnome-bin              1.4.2-8                Miscellaneous binaries used by GNOME
ii  gnome-session          1.4.2-1                The GNOME Session Manager


Many thanks,

-ben

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