tried building amarok 1.3.8 as well as 1.3.6, both segfault when being run. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre6-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 866MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LC_ALL="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa apm async avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdparanoia crypt djbfft dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode escreen faxonly fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif ginac glitz gnustep gstreamer gtk icq imlib jpeg kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww linuxkeys mikmod mjpeg mmx motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nethack nls nptl nsplugin objc objc-gc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp python qhull qt quicktime readline real rtc sftplogging spell ssl subtitles tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vcd visualization vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xmms xprint xrandr xv xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_savage" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS when stracing amarokapp, the end looks like the following: set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb6295ae0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xb70af000, 93343) = 0 set_tid_address(0xb6295b28) = 5854 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0xb63e1400, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0xb63e1480, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 _sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbfbcef2c, 39, (nil), 0}) = 0 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, ":\310\230\270", 4) = 4 close(3) = 0 futex(0xb66c3824, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8308000 brk(0x8329000) = 0x8329000 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ hope this is enough info.
Can you try with 1.4_beta3-r1 ?
Please try with 1.4_beta3-r2.