hello, i've been using amarok a while now, and it is my favorite media player.
when 1.4.5-r1 came out, i installed it, but it would crash at launch
when 1.4.5-r2 came out, i hoped the problem was fixed, but apparently the same thing
i've been degrading back to 1.4.4 to be able to use it
now that the 1.4.6 is out, i've tried this one too with some hope, but no luck
and now 1.4.4 is not on portage, so i am not able to degrade back
so i am now stuck amarokless? ):

Could you provide a backtrace? Maybe we can fix the crash before 1.4.6 final is released.

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Debugging_(documentation) has instructions specific to Gentoo.

here it is..

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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1265022064 (LWP 27431)]
0xb67dc173 in QString::QString () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb67dc173 in QString::QString () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#1  0xb7d7a723 in ThreadWeaver::Thread::run () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libamarok.so.0
#2  0xb64cf01b in QThreadInstance::start () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#3  0xb5ede2c1 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#4  0xb5d6918e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)

so i guess the amarok team doesn't care about gentoo users... ):

Bollocks. In fact some of our devs are running Gentoo themselves.

Try deleting your Amarok config (careful, deletes your collection statistics!):

rm ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc
rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok


And please note that Amarok does NOT support downgrading. Downgrading can corrupt your database.

): ....




make[4]: *** [metabundle.lo] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/amarok-1.4.6/work/amarok-1.4.6/amarok/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/amarok-1.4.6/work/amarok-1.4.6/amarok/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/amarok-1.4.6/work/amarok-1.4.6/amarok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/amarok-1.4.6/work/amarok-1.4.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: media-sound/amarok-1.4.6 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:  Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 971:  Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  environment, line 4757:  Called src_compile
  amarok-1.4.6.ebuild, line 101:  Called kde_src_compile
  kde.eclass, line 170:  Called kde_src_compile 'all'
  kde.eclass, line 340:  Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make'
  kde.eclass, line 336:  Called die

!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/amarok-1.4.6/temp/build.log'.





edit: amazingly enough, it turns on, and works, and plays music.
thanks a lot guys (:

hmmmmm, i just noticed that my amarok version is 1.4.4
don't know what happened, but it works

a failed emerge means the new version wasn't installed at all, so it's more likely something else you've done. Did you restart your machine, or run etc-update or env-update?

yes, my computer was restarted because of a 1 second power failure around 5 days ago... ?

sigh.... i have tried to emerge amarok again, and now apparently it's 1.4.6 but does not launch yet again...
debugger keeps giving me 2 windows, and they're with different text
here it is once more.... i hope amarok will work again some day ):

can anyone tell me where i can find the source for amarok-1.4.4 ?
would be appreciated. thank you.