Hi I have Amarok 1.4.6 on Ubuntu Feisty and while at first it seemed to be working fine, it has started crashing after I open it.  When I do open it, it shows the playlist, but not the sidebar and when I go click on overview or start playing the playlist, it simply freezes and crashes.  I can access the menu bar just fine, it only goes kaputt whenever I click play or want to see anything on the sidebar.

I've searched on forums and the only one with a problem similar to mine installed the Dvd playback codecs, and apparently it worked fine from there, but that didn't work for me.  Any help will be truly appreciated as I tried all the other media managers and realized that Amarok is the only truly awesome media player out there for Ubuntu.

maybe it would help if you run amaroK in the terminal and tell us what happens or what messages appears

Oh that's right  :biggrin: here you go:

Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
kbuildsycoca running...
Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098950 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098950 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
        StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
luicenciado@luicenciado-laptop:~$ ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/share/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)

I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=510165
maybe it will help you (backup if are going to try!)

Wow! Hey, that worked (i guess for now...). Thank you! It actually saved the settings like I had them before too.

And... Anyone can help with this? Is similar...but i don't know how to solve it...



QUOTE:
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
qstring_to_xtp result code -2
qstring_to_xtp result code -2
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098008 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098008 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
QInputContext: no input method context available
QInputContext: no input method context available
Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?

Did you try the one link that lacovisk put up? I t worked for me...

First of alll, it is recommended that you open a new thread for a new problem, so more people will read it and is will be most likely you get an answer!

now, about your question, it looks like more a problem of X11 then an amaroK problem...
i dunno exactly what it can be, my guess, it is a problem with your graphics, or maybe the mice
-do you have an nvidia?
-what distro do you use?
-does it happen with any other applications?
-have tryed openning with 'sudo' 'ksudo' or amarokapp?

hope soon you can be happy with amaroK!!!

LitusMayol wrote:And... Anyone can help with this? Is similar...but i don't know how to solve it...



QUOTE:
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
qstring_to_xtp result code -2
qstring_to_xtp result code -2
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098008 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8098008 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
QInputContext: no input method context available
QInputContext: no input method context available
Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?

I am really glad it worked out!

steroidabuse wrote:Wow! Hey, that worked (i guess for now...). Thank you! It actually saved the settings like I had them before too.