Arch Linux User Repository

Hello @Gaspartame,

Thank you for your message.

The solfege.install file tells you to install and configure a MIDI player if you want sound from Solfege (which you probably want).

In the optdepends two options are listed: timidity++ and fluidsynth. See their respective wiki pages on wiki.archlinux.org for configuration options. The packager does not want to make the choice of MIDI player for you.

Thank you for the suggestion all the same; I am glad that you came right!

I hope this helps.

Hello @Gaspartame,

Thank you for your message.

The solfege.install file tells you to install and configure a MIDI player if you want sound from Solfege (which you probably want).

In the optdepends two options are listed: timidity++ and fluidsynth. See their respective wiki pages on wiki.archlinux.org for configuration options. The packager does not want to make the choice of MIDI player for you.

Thank you for the suggestion all the same; I am glad that you came right!

I hope this helps.

I have got this error when trying to use solfege :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/soundcard/__init__.py", line 96, in play_mediafile
    _mediaplayer = subprocess.Popen(args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1036, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        pass_fds, cwd, env,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<5 lines>...
                        gid, gids, uid, umask,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        start_new_session, process_group)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1851, in _execute_child
    self._posix_spawn(args, executable, env, restore_signals, close_fds,
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      p2cread, p2cwrite,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      c2pread, c2pwrite,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      errread, errwrite)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1795, in _posix_spawn
    self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs)
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom: '/usr/bin/timidity'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/mainwin.py", line 681, in quit_program
    solfege.app.quit_program()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/application.py", line 467, in quit_program
    g.on_end_practise()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/exercises/melodicinterval.py", line 285, in on_end_practise
    self.m_t.end_practise()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/abstract.py", line 85, in end_practise
    soundcard.synth.stop()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/soundcard/midifilesynth.py", line 61, in stop
    self.play_midieventstream(MidiEventStream())
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/soundcard/midifilesynth.py", line 58, in play_midieventstream
    soundcard.play_mediafile('midi', self.m_tmpfilename)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/soundcard/__init__.py", line 98, in play_mediafile
    raise osutils.BinaryForMediaPlayerException(typeid,
        cfg.get_string("sound/%s_player" % typeid), e)
solfege.osutils.BinaryForMediaPlayerException
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/solfege/solfege/soundcard/__init__.py", line 96, in play_mediafile
    _mediaplayer = subprocess.Popen(args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1036, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        pass_fds, cwd, env,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<5 lines>...
                        gid, gids, uid, umask,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        start_new_session, process_group)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1851, in _execute_child
    self._posix_spawn(args, executable, env, restore_signals, close_fds,
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      p2cread, p2cwrite,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      c2pread, c2pwrite,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      errread, errwrite)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1795, in _posix_spawn
    self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs)
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom: '/usr/bin/timidity'

and after adding timidity++ as a dependance of solfege and reinstalling, it seems to works as intended. Shouldn't timidity++ be listed as a dependance by default ?

Hi @lquidfire and @PS0, the compil is OK. Thank's !!!

Thank you for the find, PS0! Same conclusion as reached on the forums by V1del. This works and a new version will be uploaded soon.

Removing the search path of /usr/src/linux in the soundcard makefile will fix the issue.

sed -e '26s/ -I\/usr\/src\/linux\/include//' -i "solfege/soundcard/Makefile"

Great catch, @PS0!

I have started a thread on the bbs! https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2181344

It seems that the clean chroot build only uses the linux api headers, whereas the 'dirty' build also uses the kernel headers of the installed kernel (/usr/src/linux).

Hi @Tiagofer and @Alf2010, could you please post about this in the forums, with a full compile log? I cannot reproduce this which makes it a bit hard to debug. Thank you!

Hi Lquidfire I have the same problem than Tiagofer. I didn't change anything in my build environment and I can build other aur packages with no problem. My message is just for info because I don't use this software for a long time, it is just installed and complained during update... Thank's for your work

Hi @Tiagofer,

I can build solfege in a clean chroot. Did you change anything about your build environment?

What if you stop those issues being treated as errors by gcc 14?