deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

Flemur · 2021-04-15 14:08:14

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!

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)

Flemur · 2021-04-17 16:52:55

Flemur wrote:

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?

V1del · 2021-04-17 17:21:05

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 · 2021-04-17 19:07:39

Flemur wrote:

any ideas?

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

Flemur · 2021-04-17 20:22:12

V1del wrote:

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.

Flemur · 2021-04-17 20:24:39

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Flemur wrote:
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)

progandy · 2021-04-17 22:25:20

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

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-22 05:52:00

Flemur wrote:

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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#1 2021-04-15 14:08:14

deadbeef sometimes loses all its settings. [SOLVED]

#2 2021-04-17 16:52:55

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

#3 2021-04-17 17:21:05

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

#4 2021-04-17 19:07:39

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

#5 2021-04-17 20:22:12

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

#6 2021-04-17 20:24:39

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

#7 2021-04-17 22:25:20

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

#8 2021-04-22 05:52:00

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

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