Problem starting Amarok-1.4.5-r1 after upgrading kdelibs

daniel1988

Recently I updated kdelibs,

didymos · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

Ok, what about completely wiping the amarok directory from your user's home directory? You'll have to reconfigure it, but it could work. I've run into a couple amarok issues where something in it's local config gets corrupted and making it rebuild everything cleared it up. You could just rename the directory, so that you still have it if this idea doesn't work.
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daniel1988 · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:58 am Post subject:

something like: $ cd ~/.kde/share/apps && mv amarok amarok_bak && amarok ? It doesn't help

didymos · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:27 am Post subject:

The problem is the error messages are useless. The kbuildsyscoca stuff happens all the time, and usually doesn't matter. The ICE error is non-specific. Is there anything useful in ~/.xsession-errors, or just more of the same? I suppose you could try to re-emerge libICE, but I doubt that'll work. Another thing to try is to move ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and run amarok again. I forgot to mention that before.
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daniel1988 · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject:

didymos · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

Crap. You've probably already tried revdep-rebuild, right? It seems likely there's some bug in that version of kdelibs, and that something in the amarok start-up code is triggering it. But, without a specific error message or backtrace, etc., who knows what or where the problem really is. Hell, it could be some interaction between that version of kdelibs, amarok and some other code that one or both links to. Or maybe they're both fine, but they trigger a bug in something more low-level. Basically, what I'm getting at here, is that I have no idea what the problem is.
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daniel1988 · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:

revdep-rebuild -X done, still the same error. Should I try to emerge latest (unstable) version of kdelibs (3.5.7 exactly) and then emerge xine-lib gstreamer amarok one more time?
I can't breathe well without amarok...

TheBlackNoodle · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Troy, NY

I don't know if this applies to you, but I found that Amarok wouldn't start unless my current compiler was set to the one I originally compiled it with. (e.g. I installed Amarok with gcc-4.1 but I temporarily select gcc-3.4.6 to compile some of my own programs. Amarok won't start unless I use gcc-config to set the compiler back to gcc-4.1.)

That might be because of some voodoo I had to go through to get Amarok working in the first place--for example, I actually call 'amarokapp' to start the thing every time--but if you've upgraded your compiler recently, I'd say it's worth a shot.

daniel1988 · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

I'm using old gcc-3.4.4-r1. No other gcc was ever used on my box.

didymos · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject:

Ok, why are you using such an old version of gcc?
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daniel1988 · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:14 am Post subject:

My box is runnig on Duron 750MHz

It will take almost one week to recompile everything... In two weeks I have the exams for University; after that I think I will recompile everything with gcc-4.x. But until then I'd like to have amarok running :roll:

daniel1988 · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject:

I've tried to emerge kdebase-3.5.7 and kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.7 without running X sever. Still the same error :cry:

pilla · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject:

Try to logout from KDE, go to a console, rm -rf /tmp/*-$USER , rm -rf /var/tmp/*-$USER and login again
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daniel1988 · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject:

Verify if those files are created by amarok/kdelibs anyway.
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daniel1988 · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject:

Amarok works now!

revdep-rebuild done it! Don't know why, but several times revdep-rebuild finished with normal exit (and I tought it recompiled everything it previously showed that it will recompile). Last r-r did everything correctly and Amarok works now.

Thank you everybody a lot!

Best Regards,
Daniel