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LibraryGeekAdam
Asked: 2012-11-28 07:30:10 +0800 CST

Why does Google Music Manager refuse to open in 12.04?

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I like to upload my music to my Google account and I use Google Music Manager to do this.

When I downloaded the music manager the first time, I wanted to actually download all the music I purchased from Google onto my Ubuntu 12.04 Dell Latitude E6400 32-bit. It worked fine and all the music downloaded.

Now I have ripped some of my old cds and want to upload that content to Google. When I chose Google Music Manager from my applications, it pops up in my tray as running but nothing actually happens. When I click on it and chose options which used to open up the interface to chose which folders you wanted to upload and so forth, nothing happens.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times and it still does the same thing. I ran it from command line and I see I am getting the errors below.

I intend on asking this same question in a Google forum but I wanted to ask here since I usually get better answers from the Ubuntu community.

t:~$ google-musicmanager

log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (root).

log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
12.04

3 Answers

    1. Quit google-musicmanager.
    2. Delete the directory ~/.config/google-musicmanager.
    3. Start google-musicmanager again. You'll get an initial setup wizard again - this time, choose an empty directory to upload music. Then the bug will not be there anymore.

    I found this workaround on ubuntuforums.org.

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  2. I had the exact same problems, and after deleting google-music-manager from ~/.config it persisted... Until I realized that you have to give Google solid user input on all prompts.

    When it asks where to upload from, choose your music folder from the file-tree. Don't just choose the default option. Once I had filled out all boxes and forms, music manager behaves normally, at least in terms of responding to mouse clicks.

    I also had to fix a DNS problem, but it's not likely you have that too.

    Now if I could only get it to keep downloading my music without quitting halfway through.

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  3. Downgrading is the only solution that works for me: google-musicmanager 64bit or google-musicmanager 32bit

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