HOWTO: run amsn, without crashing!!

[Gandalf]

Hello,
sorry if this solution has been already proposed i searched the forum didn't find any solutions in the topic i saw

to run amsn without crashing and with sound do the following:

sudo apt-get install amsn esound-clients
gedit ~/amsn&


paste inside it

#!/bin/bash
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 && amsn


then chmod +x ~/amsn

then edit the amsn link,

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/amsn.desktop


replace

Exec=amsn


with

Exec=/home/whatever_is_your_username/amsn



open amsn, go to tools -> preferences -> others and replace play $sound with esdplay $sound, set the file manager to nautilus $location

[kuleali]

thank's ..

[Gandalf]

thank's ..
no problem

[XplOzIOn]

Hello,
sorry if this solution has been already proposed i searched the forum didn't find any solutions in the topic i saw

to run amsn without crashing and with sound do the following:

sudo apt-get install amsn esound-clients
gedit ~/amsn&


paste inside it

#!/bin/bash
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 && amsn


then chmod +x ~/amsn

now create a link in your panel with the command /home/user/amsn
click on it, go to tools -> preferences -> others and replace play $sound with esdplay $sound
Gandalf i just did what you posted and when i click on it, it doesnt open anything :( im having real bad time with amsn, for some readon it crashes when i click on log in

//help

[Gandalf]

Gandalf i just did what you posted and when i click on it, it doesnt open anything :( im having real bad time with amsn, for some readon it crashes when i click on log in

//help
it's not for some reason, the reason is known, uncompatibility of amsn with the latest kernel version
if you run ~/amsn what happens? (in terminal)

[XplOzIOn]

it's not for some reason, the reason is known, uncompatibility of amsn with the latest kernel version
if you run ~/amsn what happens? (in terminal)
Hmm well i just redo everything and rebooted the pc, now it open an run withour problems. Maybe i did something wrong.
Once again thank for the tip Gandalf the white :)

[Gandalf]

Hmm well i just redo everything and rebooted the pc, now it open an run withour problems. Maybe i did something wrong.
Once again thank for the tip Gandalf the white :)
no problem :D

[bored2k]

Thanks Gandalf. Apparently it worked.

[Gandalf]

Thanks Gandalf. Apparently it worked.
no problem :D

[ykpaiha]

if that can help :
Ihad the freeze probleme with the standard version and I downloaded the cvs (fresh cvs snapshot from amsn soundforge) to make the things right.

[svanac]

What can I do?

It's still doesn't work....!!

[zxc]

Mine works perfectly. Thanks Gandalf =c)

[Gandalf]

Mine works perfectly. Thanks Gandalf =c)
no problem

@svanac verify you are running /home/user/amsn and not amsn

[svanac]

Yes, I'm make that.

The first time after installation all work well,
Next time it isn't run.

[zaxer]

Great info.

My GAIM used to crash from time to time without telling me why :)

[gustavobrust]

:grin: :grin:
Thank you very much Gandalf...
I was breaking my head to make amsn works, and now it worked perfectly!
See you!

[xodeus]

How do I make this for several users?

Please guide me through..

[yoshic]

hi, thanks for this, it's been helpful :) :) :)
and this gave me an idea and i did this instead:
as root edit the ams script located in /usr/bin/ (with gedit, vi, nano..etc)
* it looks like this
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/share/amsn && /usr/bin/wish amsn
* then change the last line with this:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 && cd /usr/share/amsn && /usr/bin/wish amsn

well it's a bit different but it works too, yeah, i'm a bit lazy ;-) ;-)

[yoshic]

How do I make this for several users?

Please guide me through..
the tip in my last post will work for any user, so you don't have to do more work than this

[rogeriovinhal]

I did the script, but I have a problem on running it directly from "Applications" menu in Gnome.
The fact is that I didn't install aMSN from APT-GET, so I made my own shortcut to it using SMEG, but it doesn't run if I change the shortcut to the script.

If I click twice in it in nautilus, it asks me if I want to open or execute, and the I choose execute, but it doesn't do anything at all with the shortcut in the menu.

Any ideas?

[rogeriovinhal]

Up.

[xodeus]

I did the script, but I have a problem on running it directly from "Applications" menu in Gnome.
The fact is that I didn't install aMSN from APT-GET, so I made my own shortcut to it using SMEG, but it doesn't run if I change the shortcut to the script.

If I click twice in it in nautilus, it asks me if I want to open or execute, and the I choose execute, but it doesn't do anything at all with the shortcut in the menu.

Any ideas?
Does it run if you start it via console?

[rogeriovinhal]

Does it run if you start it via console?
Yes, it does.

[xodeus]

What if you try to make a custom launcher in the gnome panel? Does it work?

[ykpaiha]

a lot of headeaks this amsn...
work fine for a time then without warning stop and freeze!!!
I will look closely as well in a new msn messenger
Mercury
http://www.mercury.to/
let' see...

[rogeriovinhal]

What if you try to make a custom launcher in the gnome panel? Does it work?
How do I do that?

[jrincon87]

Hey, I followed the instructions and now it works perfectly. I'm not an advanced user, but what's the reason why aMSN works well with this? What does this fix?
I assume it has to be with the kernel version but I can't figure out why.
Thanks.