juk broken in KDE 3.3

snowlander · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:25 am Post subject: juk broken in KDE 3.3

I just emerged KDE 3.3. Everything seems OK except this.
When I try to run juk, here is what happens:

Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

Odd... No great loss I reckon ;-)

You presumably do have aRts installed and running? One imagines that's fairly important to juk.
You didn't compile with any aggressive optimisations? They're often good for a random crash.

If nothing else, remerging kdemultimedia may be worth a go - just in case of a randomness the first time around. That'll probably take an hour or so though.

lordan1971 · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject:

Happens for me as well, and for many ppl it seems. I'm not really concerned as I use amarok when I'm in KDE. I think the main reason you don't hear too much about juk being b0rked is that amarok is much more popular. But that's just a guess.

fourwood · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 197

Bump because I have the same problem. I'm emerging Amarok to give it a try, though.

Headrush · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject:

I have no problems.

Try moving your .kde folder to a backup and log in again and see if that helps.
Sometimes letting it creating new config files solves many KDE upgrade problems.
If that works, move the backup you made back to .kde and then delete the offending juk/arts files in .kde

NoUseForAName · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

Check out http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85889

soulwarrior · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 331

cdf · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:27 am Post subject: or... USE="gstreamer"

I was having the same problem with Juk after upgrading to KDE 3.5.2. I used the aforementioned perl script and ended up re-emerging taglib, but it didn't fix things. Then I remembered something somewhere (I forgot where) that said compiling with the 'gstreamer' USE flag might help. It worked for me. :-)

Thus, the problem is Arts-related?

cdf · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:06 am Post subject: or kdemultimedia-arts?

I dug further and discovered that in upgrading to KDE 3.5.2, somehow kdemultimedia-arts didn't get upgraded, and I remembered the problem started around the time I uninstalled the previous 3.4.x versions of everything. So installed kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.2 and recompiled Juk (without gstreamer). Works just fine now.

It would seem that Juk has a runtime dependency on kdemultimedia-arts, but the ebuild for Juk doesn't reflect this.

cdf

That's odd. I uninstalled kdemultimedia-arts to test my theory, but that didn't reproduce the problem. Not even after restarting my KDE session. I really don't know what the problem is.