Bugzilla Bug 29445

After upgrading to kde-3.1.3 kmplayer no longer works. From konsole:

$ kmplayer
KMPlayerViewStatic::KMPlayerViewStatic
KMPlayerView 48234545 135207336
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
The kde crash handler window comes up and under the "backtrace tab I get:

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 3159)]
0x41510137 in waitpid ()
   from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0  0x41510137 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x40c34a0e in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) ()
   from /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#2  0x4150efea in __pthread_sighandler () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x40540650 in Arts::Object_base::_node() ()
   from /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libmcop.so.1
#5  0x40560d12 in Arts::connect(Arts::Object const&, std::string const&,
Arts::Object const&, std::string const&) () from /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libmcop.so.1
#6  0x400a914a in KArtsFloatWatch::KArtsFloatWatch(Arts::Object, char const*,
QObject*, char const*) () from /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartskde.so.1
#7  0x4005bc6a in KMPlayerView::setUseArts(bool) ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kparts_kmplayer.so
#8  0x4005f474 in KMPlayerConfig::readConfig() ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kparts_kmplayer.so
#9  0x40038651 in KMPlayerApp::readOptions() ()
   from /usr/lib/kdeinit_kmplayer.so
#10 0x40032bf5 in KMPlayerApp::KMPlayerApp(QWidget*, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/kdeinit_kmplayer.so
#11 0x400326f5 in main () from /usr/lib/kdeinit_kmplayer.so
#12 0x4167a7a7 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

I noticed this when upgrading to KDE 3.1.4 - kmplayer would no longer startup
at all, with the same error that's reported here.
I tried re-emerging media-video/mplayer and then media-video/kmplayer, and
this seems to have fixed the problem. I got a warning that the digests of
two files (font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 and font-arial-iso-8859-2.tar.bz2
in /usr/portage/distfiles) didn't match the stored digests and so I deleted
these and allowed portage to download them again.
Hope this helps!

please try 0.8b

I see no ebuild for kmplayer-0.8beta. Is it elsewhere in bugzilla? I do see
a masked 0.7.95 in portage

it's not 0.8beta but 0.8b and in portage since yesterday...

kmplayer-0.8b (masked) works properly. Thanks

bumped 0.8b to stable...