Heyla,

Since one of the latest releases I can't start up Amarok anymore. I followed the suggestion to delete "HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/" folder. The first two or three times that helped, but now removing that folder helps only temporarily. When I start up my laptop again i have to do the same routime over and over. At this moment when I start up Amarok (CL) I get this output:

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Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Object::connect: No such signal Podcasts::SqlPodcastProvider::playlistAdded( Playlists::PlaylistPtr )
Object::connect: No such signal Podcasts::SqlPodcastProvider::playlistRemoved( Playlists::PlaylistPtr )
Object::connect: No such signal Playlists::SqlUserPlaylistProvider::playlistAdded( Playlists::PlaylistPtr )
Object::connect: No such signal Playlists::SqlUserPlaylistProvider::playlistRemoved( Playlists::PlaylistPtr )
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter

and the processor goes well above 100%.

The first time the crashes happened it seemed to be caused by the fact that my laptop ran out of power while asleep.

Ofcourse removing the above folder is a drastic measure which let's you lose album covers and ratings etc. I don't have a problem with these crashes if they would be easy to fix. I have searched everywhere but there just does not seem to be a proper fix for this.

Does anyone of the development team have any clue about this and are there any ideas to prevent this behaviour? I did find that many other people are having a similar problem. I just like Amarok to much to start using another player.

gRTz

ben

Please also delete ~/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc and see how you fare. This should not happen at all (mine runs just fine). In case it persists please let us know your OS, your KDE version, your Amarok version, kernel and even better if you ran strace with it as well!

Having said all that, I'm sure amarok threw up over the fact that a playlist was removed and is not accessible any more. Do you have any idea as to why this may have happened? Did you have an external disk on the box and created a playlist or some such?

Sadly you don't tell the exact Amarok and KDE version, but you might be hit by a plasma bug, see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245513, which causes problems for all users people using KDE 4.5.x. Usually removing the Lyrics applet is a good workaround, see comment #27 in the above mentionned bug.

FWIW: deleting the configuration folder is a good move, but it is never needed to delete the HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/, I don't know who told you to do that. You can move it to check if something causes problems, but deleting is really never needed.

Mamarok wrote:Sadly you don't tell the exact Amarok and KDE version, but you might be hit by a plasma bug, see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245513, which causes problems for all users people using KDE 4.5.x. Usually removing the Lyrics applet is a good workaround, see comment #27 in the above mentionned bug.

Hey,

tHNx a lot for our reaction. I use "Amarok Version 2.3.1.90 using Platform Version 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1)" It does not look as having to do with the bug you mention.

Mamarok wrote:FWIW: deleting the configuration folder is a good move, but it is never needed to delete the HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/, I don't know who told you to do that. You can move it to check if something causes problems, but deleting is really never needed.

Searching for this problem sadly gives this advice in almost all posts I find about the subject. It would make sense if 'your' advice to remove the 'amarokrc' config file would be clearly mentioned on the amarok site if it isn't already.

tHNx for your assistance.

ben

And, has it worked?