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Flemur

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Registered: 2012-05-24

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deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

Edit:  solution: PEBCAK ...it was an old cleaning script!

Hi -

The issue: start deadbeef (1.8.4), add two playlists into two tabs, run it, exit (by File->Quit or clicking the close-window button), run again, kill deadbeef, run it...everything's fine.  No GUI customization other than adding the tabs.

Then out of nowhere I start it up and there's one tab and no playlists (and the 1.dbpl playlist file is gone).  I can't reproduce this when I want to! 

On internet searching, I see there are similar (unresolved?) issue(s) dating back to 2016  (this is "DeaDBeeF 1.8.4 Copyright  2009-2017").

Any ideas?

Edit: Version 1.8.7 just lost its settings and deleted its playlist file(s).  Solution: don't use deadbeef.

Last edited by Flemur (2021-04-18 17:29:24)

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Flemur

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

Then out of nowhere I start it up and there's one tab and no playlists (and the 1.dbpl playlist file is gone).  I can't reproduce this when I want to!

It just happened again; playlists gone from the interface, and the playlist files gone from the directory...any ideas?

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V1del

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

Works fine here, do you have your ~/.config/deadbeef on a non persistent drive (... and or environment variables changing this) or use a dynamic homedir e.g. systemd-homed or so or a config dir cleanup job or so? Use the audit framework to monitor accesses to the deadbeef config dir: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Audit_framework

Last edited by V1del (2021-04-17 17:22:35)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

any ideas?

Perhaps try updating it to the latest version. The package has been orphaned and is a bit old now.

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Flemur

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

Works fine here, do you have your ~/.config/deadbeef on a non persistent drive (... and or environment variables changing this) or use a dynamic homedir e.g. systemd-homed or so or a config dir cleanup job or so?

Nope, nothing unusual about the files, except that they disappear.  Audit sounds like overkill for this, thanks, though.

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Flemur

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

any ideas?

Perhaps try updating it to the latest version. The package has been orphaned and is a bit old now.

Turns out I had 1.8.7 installed on another machine (but had never run it!), from a .deb file, and the whole installation sits in /opt/deadbeef, so I copied that over and started afresh without any config files...if it works for a while I'll mark this solved, thanks. (1.8.4 is from pacman)

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progandy

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

By the way, the repo package might be dropped soon: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 30405.html

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

the whole installation sits in /opt/deadbeef, so I copied that over

That's a bad idea. Just update the PKGBUILD and install the newer version properly instead.

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