Hi,

I have a problem getting amarok to start, meaning amarok stopps during the start-process and I have to kill it.

I have a gentoo system on a dell inspiron 8600 emerging amarok 1.2.3 with the following USE-Flags:

+arts +debug +flac +gstreamer +kde -kdeenablefinal +mad +mysql -noamazon +oggvorbis +opengl +visualization +xine +xinerama +xmms

When I start a backtrace I get the following output:

#0 0xb652a973 in __linuxthreads_create_event () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0xb65258d1 in pthread_handle_create () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb6524d56 in __pthread_manager () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 0xb6524f83 in __pthread_manager_event () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#4 0xb6230fea in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6


When I start amarok from the konsole the last lines I can see are these:

amarok: PluginManager Service Info:
amarok: ---------------------------
amarok: name : aKode-Treiber
amarok: library : libamarok_aKode-engine
amarok: desktopEntryPath : amarok_aKode-engine.desktop
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype : engine
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-name : akode-engine
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-authors : (Max Howell)
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-rank : 45
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-version : 1
amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version: 5
amarok:

I cannot (re-)install akode on its own, since it seems to be included in the package:

kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4


What can I do to get amarok to work properly?

Thanks,
Bjoern

Try using a different engine. For instance, `amarok --engine xine`

Thanx - now it works!