I\'m running Amarok 1.2.4-1 under Debian/Sid. I rebooted my computer today (I have done many apt-get upgrades since my last reboot) and Amarok now crashes on startup with:

amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK: [Loader] Don\'t run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::statusText( const QString& ) to (null)::shortMessage( const QString& )
QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::infoMessage( const QString& ) to (null)::longMessage( const QString& )
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap
KCrash: Application \'amarok\' crashing...


Does anyone know how I can get amarok working again. I\'m assuming this isn\'t actually an amarok problem as such.

Any help would be appreciated.

I have the same problem on my debian SID

I tried apt-get remove --purge amarok then apt-get install apt-get install amarok but without succeeding

There is a problem with artsd. Edit amarokrc to use gstreamer instead. (And make sure gstreamer is not using its own artsd output plugin, this will crash too).

Thanks for the tip. Yes, I am using arts. But my amarokrc only has this:

--BEGIN--
[General]
XMLFile=amarokui.rc

[BrowserBar]
CurrentPane=ContextBrowser

[PlaylistColumnsLayout]
#see PlaylistWidget::setColumnWidth() for explanation for below
ColumnWidths=0,200,100,100,0,0,0,0,0,80,0
--END__

So nothing to do with arts in there. That is my /etc/kde3/amarokrc. I cannot see another one.

hi,

you may try to downgrade libtunepimp2 to 0.3.0-3, see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317393