Amarok crashes immediately with any engine by playing mp3

Erlenmayr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

Hi!

If I want to play an mp3 with amarok, it crashes immediately after double clicking the entry in the playlist or clicking the play button. After that it starts my mail program (Mozilla Thunderbird). The engine I try to play with does not matter, it crashes with xine and gstreamer. It still plays Ogg Vorbis files without any trouble.

Two days ago there was a new version of amarok in the portage tree (1.3.7), so I updated. After that it did not play any mp3 files any more. I downgraded to the version which I had installed before, but the problem is still there.

After that I unmerged amarok completely and removed every configuration file. Then I installed the stable version of amarok 1.2.4, but it still crashes.

I let revdep-rebuild check the libraries, but there were no corruptions found. Other players (xmms, Kaffeine) still play mp3 without any trouble.

I also tried to remerge the packages used by amarok (perl, berkley DB etc.) but all that did not help.

Does anyone have an idea, what the problem is?
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weaksauce · Apprentice Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 204 Location: NYC

I know it's obvious sounding, but you should look at the USE flags on it, I don't know why but when I turned off xmms USE flag, amarok became much more stable for me. I'm assuming you also have mp3 flag turned on? Just checking... I'm using version 1.3.7

Hope it helps,

Headrush · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject:

Try rebuilding tunepimp and then amarok.

Does this happen using all the output engines?

Start from a commandline and post the message, if any, when it crashes.

Erlenmayr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

gimpel · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

Yo Erlenmayr

try to start amarokapp directly. AFAIK that's the right way to start amarok anyway
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Erlenmayr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

gimpel · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject:

which database backend do you use? (just because i heard of that error somehow related to the database backend)

also a full gdb trace could be interesting and/or compile it in debug mode
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Headrush · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:

To get full debugging info you will have to recompile with USE="debug" and add nostrip to the FEATURES= section in /etc/make.conf.

mr_smidge · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 64 Location: London

I had this same issue after upgrading to gcc 3.4.4 - Since amaroK is a C++ application, I thought that this crashing was most likely due to the ABI change from changing compilers.

Re-emerging a few likely-looking packages solved things for me. I don't know which one of these packages in particular did the job, but you might like to try re-emerging some of the following:

Erlenmayr · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 85

I only deactivated the database features of amarok in the setting menu - now it does not crash any more.

I think the problem is caused by the update of Berkley DB.
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Shards · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 9

hey guy, thought id add my 2 cents, i had this exact problem but a recompile of taglib fixed it. hope this helps you
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