Last few days xmms seems to bomb between songs or when a new song is selected, either from the select file menu or from the playlist. Console output says:
[meyerv@localhost meyerv]$ xmms mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding MCOP ObjectManager: can't find implementation for Arts::X11GlobalComm. xmms: core.cc:2016: Arts::GlobalComm_base *Arts::GlobalComm_base::_create (const string &): Assertion `skel' failed. Aborted [meyerv@localhost meyerv]$ This is under KDE 2 and all updates that have hit sunsite.uio.no as of about 9:00 PM Central time . V.
