Black Screen

Sun, 05/23/2010 - 18:22 — DinoT1985
Hi Electric Sheep worked great until today after I uninstalled Gnome Mplayer and Mplayer GUI. Then it just shows up as a black screen. So I did a fresh install and still nothing. Tried it again and now it's installed but it is not listed in the Screensaver options. Mplayer is still installed, as is Smplayer. I can't think of anything else I've done from when it worked to when it stopped. I'm running Lucid Linux. Any ideas please?
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Wed, 06/02/2010 - 09:57 — DinoT1985

If I run debug in terminal I

If I run debug in terminal I get this

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electric sheep v2.7b12
time start Wed Jun 2 14:28:01 2010
init_curl_cmd 0
curl_cmd = nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error
server = v2d7c.sheepserver.net
play_counts init, thread=main
play counts:
updating cache path=/home/dino/.electricsheep/
thread main compute ranks
median rank undefined
begin delete cached 0
nothing cached
init_curl_cmd 1
curl_cmd = nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error
server = v2d7c.sheepserver.net
time do_http_download Wed Jun 2 14:28:01 2010
list nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error
'http://v2d7c.sheepserver.net
/cgi/list?v=LNX_2.7b12&
u=83CADE547EBF8DDB'| gunzip -c
updating cache path=/home/dino/.electricsheep/
thread display compute ranks
median rank undefined
time display loop Wed Jun 2 14:28:01 2010
cleanup_and_exit 1
handle_sig_term waiter 0
cleanup.
writing play counts
handle_sig_term download 15
cleanup.
writing play counts
handle_sig_term main 15
cleanup.
writing play counts
handle_sig_term display 15
cleanup.
nplays = 0, nloopplays = 0, nrestarts = 0, ncached_sheep = 0
count standard deviation undefined
writing play counts
Terminated
=====

yes in mplayer they play ok. preferences is set up right.
Wed, 06/02/2010 - 10:11 — spot

what is the output of "ls -l

what is the output of "ls -l /home/dino/.electricsheep"?
Sun, 05/23/2010 - 21:33 — spot

are you using the version

are you using the version from synaptic or did you compile from source? what happens if you run it from the command line?
Wed, 05/26/2010 - 17:48 — DinoT1985

Same for both. I've tried

Same for both. I've tried from the Synaptic, from source and even this code
below

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#!/bin/bash

d=electricsheep-`date +%F`

mkdir $d
cd $d

sudo apt-get install mplayer curl subversion libtool libjpeg-dev
sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev libgconf2-dev libavformat-dev
libavcodec-dev libavutil49
sudo apt-get install libgnome-menu-dev libglade2-dev libgnomeui-dev
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf checkinstall

svn co https://electricsheep.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/electricsheep/trunk/cl... client
svn co https://flam3.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/flam3/trunk/src flam3

cd flam3
aclocal
autoheader
libtoolize --copy --force
automake --add-missing --copy --gnu
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
cd ..

cd client
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
cd ..

cd ..

====

But still black screen.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 17:53 — spot

did you try changing the

did you try changing the graphics driver with electricsheep-preferences? what happens if you run "electricsheep --debug 1" from the command line?
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 18:20 — qwerty800

Same here

Changing the drivers do nothing. If I run it in debug mode, I get:
electric sheep v2.7b12
time start Tue Jun 1 17:20:28 2010
init_curl_cmd 0
curl_cmd = nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error
server = v2d7c.sheepserver.net
play_counts init, thread=main
play counts: [runs for 12 pages, too long]
updating cache path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
updating cache path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
thread main compute ranks
median rank 0.8 n = 5990 plays = 153
ncheck = 1190/5990
begin delete cached 0
thread display compute ranks
median rank 0.8 n = 5990 plays = 153
ncheck = 1190/5990
time display loop Tue Jun 1 17:20:28 2010
idx=5157 ncached_sheep=5990 best_atime
found new anim id=13197.
play anim x=5157 id=13197 iters=1 path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
bumped 13197 to 157, page=25
writing play counts
writing dirty page 25
set atime of 5157 to 1275427228
playing /home/user/.electricsheep/00243=13197=13197=13197.avi
suppressed 1234=13252
suppressed 5157=13197
no succ
skipping update cache 1/1000
time display loop Tue Jun 1 17:20:29 2010
idx=1234 ncached_sheep=5990 best_atime
found new anim id=13252.
play anim x=1234 id=13252 iters=1 path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
bumped 13252 to 157, page=25
writing play counts
writing dirty page 25
set atime of 1234 to 1275427229
playing /home/user/.electricsheep/00243=13252=13197=12906.avi
suppressed 1653=13254
suppressed 3668=12906
suppressed 5683=13017
no succ
skipping update cache 2/1000
time display loop Tue Jun 1 17:20:29 2010
idx=420 ncached_sheep=5990 best_atime
found new anim id=13404.
play anim x=420 id=13404 iters=1 path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
bumped 13404 to 157, page=26
writing play counts
writing dirty page 26
set atime of 420 to 1275427229
playing /home/user/.electricsheep/00243=13404=13404=13404.avi
suppressed 420=13404
esuccto 13553
skipping update cache 3/1000
time display loop Tue Jun 1 17:20:29 2010
play anim x=227 id=13553 iters=1 path=/home/user/.electricsheep/
bumped 13553 to 65, page=26
set atime of 227 to 1275427229
playing /home/user/.electricsheep/00243=13553=13404=13456.avi
cleanup_and_exit 1
handle_sig_term waiter 0
cleanup.
writing play counts
handle_sig_term download 15
cleanup.
writing play counts
handle_sig_term display 15
cleanup.
nplays = 4, nloopplays = 2, handle_sig_term main 15
nrestarts = 2, cleanup.
ncached_sheep = 5990
writing play counts
restart_rate = 0.5
count standard deviation = 62.9403, n = 5990
count average = 77.8957
writing play counts
writing dirty page 26
Done
Consider that the program only runs for 2 seconds.
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 19:15 — spot

what happens if you run

what happens if you run mplayer directly on the sheep? also i am not sure what you mean about a "black screen" when you run "electricsheep" on the command line. does it open a window?

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