amarok keeps crashing

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

And again, no fix

I've tried using 3 engines, arts(which somehow still tells me that I don't have MP3-support compiled in, how do I change that?), xine and gstreamer, using both MySQL and SQLite, all crash.
Xine and ARTS give me a kcrash dialog with a backtrace, gst crashes even faster and doesn't give me any backtrace or anything...

Backtrace:

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Amarok 1.3.3, same problem:
Backtrace using xine-engine

frilled · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject:

Well, 1.2.4 crashes a lot for me, too. I have not tried the ~x86 version yet, but I tried the official 1.3 amaroK LiveCD, and that one turned out to be rock solid. I let it run on three boxes up to now, played the whole bundled music numerous times, looked up texts and covers and clicked like mad [read: hardcore tested], and it simply didn't crash -- as opposed to the emerged version that has to be touched with silky gloves. I'd say it's almost as unstable as kmail, the most crash-prone application I have ever seen (regardless of operating system) in the last 26 years (and believe me, I've seen a lot

). Guess I'll try the ~x86 version of amaroK now.

Strange. I usually LOATHE those all-in-one-mega-integration programs with all my heart, but amarok is ... heh, it's kinda cool

It's got that "F*ck you IP fascist" atttitude that I really love

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frilled · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

Well, 1.3.3 looks a _lot_ more stable. What do you guys think?
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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

I think it still crashes on my system

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frilled · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

Well I guess I should have specifically excluded you, what seemed to much work

The thing leaks memory though, obviously. A lot.

Now it's been running for two hours straight und uses > 250 MB rss.
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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Hmmmzz.. well I still think it's related to GCC 3.4 somehow...

The big problem is, that a while ago GCC 3.4 was marked stable for a very short time, apparently the time when I upgraded my machine. So I continued compiling using GCC 3.4 from that point. Things started breaking so I re-emerged my whole system using GCC 3.4; afterwards I synced my portage tree again and somehow GCC 3.4 became ~x86 instead of x86; so now I should downgrade again which would probably mean re-compiling my entire system again which I'm not exactly keen on. Somehow a portage maintainer messed up for a short time and I get to keep the result

If anyone can support my conclusion that downgrading to GCC 3.3.6 again would help to solve this problem, I might give in and recompile again...

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frilled · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Hmm, I switched back to GCC 3.3.6, recompiled glibc, libstdc+-v3, qt, kdebase, gstreamer, xine-lib and amarok with that and deleted the .kde/share/config/amarokrc and .kde/share/apps/amarok/ files.
The crash is now different. When I start with 'amarok --engine gst' it crashes immediatly, I don't even get a backtrace window or anything.
When I start with 'amarok --engine xine', amarok starts and I can set it up a bit, but then it starts to scan my MP3-files and I get a kmail window telling me amarok has crashed and the backtrace is attached to the mail message. The thing is, amarok hasn't crashed, not fully anyway. It's not scanning my collection anymore, and I can't get it to in any way, but the amarok main window is still usable, I can switch panes, click buttons, edit preferences and stuff. I just can't get any MP3-file in.

The backtrace in the mail is:

frilled · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

What irritates me here is the reference to GLIBC 2.3.2...

And BTW: Somebody mentioned (and IIRC it's also 'enoticed') that it doesn't work with hyperthreading. Well, mine runs on two HT boxes at least as "good" as on those without HT. (1.3.3 = ~x86).

What definitely makes it crash a lot is the background collection update. I had to disable it.
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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

That is strange yes, since I've got 2.3.5-r2 installed...
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bender3000 · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 7

I have filed bugzilla entry some time ago:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98377
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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Hmm? I don't see a glibc-problem there?
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pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

I'm also having mysterious crashes with amarok, all versions since 1.2.

Whatever I do, it keeps crashing. I've tried GStreamer and xinelib, and xinelib works perfectly with Kaffeine, so it should be OK.

Sometimes it plays for a while, then crashes, sometimes it crashes as soon as I try to play a file. I've tried deleting the config files, tried as a different user, always the same. I've disabled HyperThreading in BIOS and as a kernel parameter. It's still completely unpredictable. I've rescanned the collection from scratch, didn't help.

Right now I'm doing emerge -e world, and I'll compile amarok with -opengl and with MySQL backend, to see whether that fixes it. I'll let you guys know.

But so far, everything has been useless. Which is a shame because I really like Amarok, I've set up my entire collection in it, with all the album covers and all that, for my 25 Gigs of music, but the sad bugger keeps crashing

so I'm currently playing my music with console + mplayer.

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

Nope, still no go.

I did an emerge -e world (took the better part of a day), disabled opengl, and used mysql instead of SQLlite. I also disabled hyperthreading both in BIOS and using "noht" kernel parameter.

amarok still crashes. It's quite a strange behaviour. It seems to be more common with some files, and it almost always occurs between songs/when starting a song, so I suspect it is some kind of a playback problem, OR that it has something to do with reading the file's metadata.

I did try GStreamer and the thing was just as unstable. I also tried with a different user (new settings), with no luck. I've turned off most fancy stuff like crossfades.

I'm at a loss, really. This has been going for a while, and I really like amarok and would like to use it. Back in the early 1.2 times (I'm guessing here), it was very stable and usable. Whether something changed in amarok or whether it has something to do with the changes to my system in the meantime, I honestly don't know.

frilled · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:52 am Post subject:

Take a look at the FAQ the amaroK authors put up. It's probably due to errors in a libraray that deals with the ID-tags. Must be a very poorly written software

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John-Boy · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:04 am Post subject:

frilled · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:28 am Post subject:

Uhm, wasn't taglib for ID tag handling?
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John-Boy · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:06 am Post subject:

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Thanks for that great hint, I just re-emerged taglib-1.4 and now amarok-3.4.4 is working longer than it's ever done before, still waiting to see if it crashes but so far it looks gooed!
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frilled · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Compiled 1.3.5 today. Looking good so far. They say they got rid of the Hyperthreading problems (which weren't apparent to me in the first place)...
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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Oh joy, I upgraded to amarok 1.3.5 and the crashes returned instantly. I'm compiling amarok 1.3.4 again now, I'll just use the older version(which for some reason disappeared from portage....)
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frilled · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:30 am Post subject:

As 1.3.4 was not officially posted on their website I think it either slipped out or was pulled immediately

Who know ... any maintainer here?

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MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Grr, should've never tried it, I can't get amarok-1.3.4 back to stable usage now either; I recompiled plenty of times, taglib as well, but i'm back to where I started, an amaroK that crashes on start or during the first song...
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