Not sure how I can provide useful info, please offer suggestions.

Due to collection scan errors I am unable to build catalog my collection.  At first it was crashing on non asci characters, then crashing on accented characters, now crashing on file names that are perfectly normal.  In total I've scanned my collection of 120K+ files over 50 times!  Each time it crashes on a character, searching the entire collection and renaming the files.

My systems (I've tried 3 total):

Two Fedora Core 6 final and one Fedora Core 7 test, all result in the same errors.  I've also tried compiling Amarok from source, same error.  This error happens with both sqlite and mysql.

I'm happy to help in any manor.

Thanks
Andy

Just because I tried it again, here is the output:

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Sorry, the Collection Scan was aborted, since too many problems were encountered.
Advice: A common source for this problem is a broken 'TagLib' package on your computer. Replacing this package may help fixing the issue.
The following files caused problems:
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/08 Diary Of A Madman.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/07 Flying High Again 1.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Basement Jaxx/Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Yes/Yesyears (1 of 4)/Yes - Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm.m
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/08 Diary Of A Madman.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/07 Flying High Again 1.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Basement Jaxx/Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Yes/Yesyears (1 of 4)/Yes - Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm.m
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/08 Diary Of A Madman.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/07 Flying High Again 1.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Basement Jaxx/Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Yes/Yesyears (1 of 4)/Yes - Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm.m
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/08 Diary Of A Madman.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/07 Flying High Again 1.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Basement Jaxx/Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Yes/Yesyears (1 of 4)/Yes - Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm.m
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/08 Diary Of A Madman.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Ozzy Osbourne/Diary Of A Madman/07 Flying High Again 1.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Basement Jaxx/Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango.mp3
/mainnfs/backup/MP3/By Artists/Yes/Yesyears (1 of 4)/Yes - Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm.m

The character "Würm" is really a "Wurm" and the "u" two little dots above it!  Don't have a clue what is wrong with the others!

Anyway to configure it to simply skip all files/songs with what it considers bad names?

One more update.  Last night I compiled Taglib1.4 from source, no effect, same problem.

Same problem as with the Ubuntu package, I think: GCC's stack smashing protection goes haywire. Amarok needs to be rebuild without this option.

Thanks Mark, what is the configure option to disable it?  I'll test it!

Well I don't know. There is some info on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-smashing_protection

mmmmmmm, disabling appears to me more difficult then just a configure option!

Is this change scheduled?  Any guesses on the time line?

We (Amarok) currently can't do anything about it. The best thing you could do is contact your distro packager and point the problem out to him. I think it would be in the best interest of everyone if new packages were made.

Well, before I can do that I need to better understand the problem!  This isn't an Amarok bug?  Its a GCC stack smashing bug?

If so I'd bet the best option would be for an Amarok developer (who truly understands the problem) to contact the maintainer or submit it to Bugzilla.