Hello

I use amarok 1.3 both at home and at work.

It runs fine in my home machine, but at work it crashes sometimes. Other thing I\'ve noticed is that at work, amarok can\'t fetch any album cover.

My setup is:

kde 3.4.2
xine-libs 1.0.2
alsa 1.0.8
glibc 2.3.3
compiled with gcc 3.4.1

(mandrake 10.1)

This is the backtrace:

Using host libthread_db library \"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1\".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1105801696 (LWP 11351)]
[New Thread 1124481968 (LWP 11357)]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1105801696 (LWP 11351)]
[New Thread 1124481968 (LWP 11357)]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1105801696 (LWP 11351)]
[New Thread 1124481968 (LWP 11357)]
[KCrash handler]
#7 0x41bdfb59 in __gnu_cxx::__exchange_and_add () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#8 0x41bc348e in std::basic_string::~basic_string () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#9 0x43b2437c in Arts::InterfaceDef::~InterfaceDef ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#10 0x43b29fde in std::vector::_M_insert_aux () from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#11 0x43b2a2e8 in Arts::readTypeSeq ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#12 0x43b1fc8c in Arts::ModuleDef::readType ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#13 0x43b1ff02 in Arts::ModuleDef::ModuleDef ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#14 0x43b471a4 in Arts::IDLFileReg::startup ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#15 0x43b4d481 in Arts::StartupManager::startup ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#16 0x43b326ff in Arts::Dispatcher::Dispatcher ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libmcop.so.1
#17 0x436643a3 in arts_backend_init ()
from /opt/kde342/lib/libartscbackend.so.0
#18 0x43656526 in arts_init () from /opt/kde342/lib/libartsc.so.0
#19 0x436531bb in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.2/xineplug_ao_out_arts.so

Well I know this applies:
*Don\'t use aRts. Use xine or gstreamer instead.
And this might apply:
*Don\'t use Hyperthreading with a preempt kernel.

Obviously he is using xine with arts backend.
Change the output plugin in xine to oss or better alsa.

Marcel

I had previously tried to change the output plugin to alsa, but amarok crashed every time.

Today it finally worked; I guess it helped that I manually terminated arts before aplying the change.

Thanks!

Hmm, does aRts work for you in other circumstances?

Maybe the arts xine plugin needs to be blacklisted.