BTW, let me say first off that this was working before... I think another package got upgraded and that is what is affecting it. Recently I have upgraded to kde 3.5.2 but the crashing behaviour is still the same. I will attach the stack trace and other stuff.
Created attachment 88068 [details] amarok-trace.txt stack trace
Created attachment 88069 [details] amarok-commandline.txt What I see at the command line.
Created attachment 88070 [details] emerge-info.txt My emerge --info Any help is greatly appreciated.
Can you try to get a more meaningful backtrace by following http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml ?
Thanks for the great Diego. There was a segfault and it looked like it was occuring in a call to taglib. Just for the hell of it, I re-emerged taglib and it that seemed to fix it. It makes no sense to me. Here's my log of amarok installs. Mon Mar 27 14:14:32 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.9 (amarok got screwed up sometime after here, in May) Sat May 13 16:07:02 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 Tue May 16 01:43:07 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 Fri May 26 01:04:50 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 Wed May 31 18:29:46 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 (amarok got screwed up sometime before I gave 1.4.0 a try) Wed May 31 23:34:27 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.4.0a Thu Jun 1 00:09:12 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.4.0a Thu Jun 1 01:08:40 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 Thu Jun 1 03:09:41 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 Fri Jun 2 00:02:34 2006 >>> media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 I never emerged taglib at all during that period.
Okay it was a mixed GCC version most likely :)