Amarok

[anuptechonly]

I am using fedora 12, whenever I try to use Amarok, it gives an error, screenshot is attached.
I tried with re-installation, but without success.

[marriedto51]

Without more info it's hard to say what is happening.

Does this message appear as soon as amarok runs, or only when you try to do something in particular?

Do other sound / multimedia programs work for you? (Examples: kaffeine, xine, mplayer.)

Did you install amarok from the fedora repositories, or is this a version from somewhere else?

Could you try running amarok, then when you get the crash, type

tail ~/.xsession-errors

in a konsole to see if there is any info on what caused the crash.

[anuptechonly]

This message of Amarok crashing appears as soon as amarok runs.

Totem player, vlc player RhytomBox player working ok..

I installed Fedora 12 from dvd,

I reinstalled amarok but it was of no use.


[anup@anup ~]$ tail ~/.xsession-errors
amarok(9125)/kdecore (KSycoca) KSycocaPrivate::openDatabase: Trying to open ksycoca from "/var/tmp/kdecache-anup/ksycoca4"
KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/libexec/kde4/drkonqi
<unknown program name>(9124)/: Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

drkonqi(9126) KCrashBackend::constructCrashedApplication: Using /proc to determine executable path
drkonqi(9126) KCrashBackend::constructCrashedApplication: Executable is: "/usr/bin/amarok"
drkonqi(9126) KCrashBackend::constructCrashedApplication: Executable exists: true
Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x5600004 specified for 0x5600019 (Amarok –).

[marriedto51]

It looks like amarok is crashing very early on in its initialization.

Sorry I can't offer much more help: you have presumably tried a wider search on the web? You could also try changing the audio settings for KDE (K menu -> System Settings -> Mulitmedia).

A last thought: I think amarok uses the xine engine. Just check you have the packages xine-ui, xine-lib, and (if you want to play mp3) xine-lib-extras-freeworld.

[ozjd]

Try removing ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/

You will lose your database with playlists etc. so you might prefer to rename it to see if it helps.