If I try to start amarok, it fails with: rose@lynx:/home/rose(32)$ amarok Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::angleChanged(int) in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.9.0/work/phonon-4.9.0/phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:65 Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::availableAnglesChanged(int) in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.9.0/work/phonon-4.9.0/phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:66 WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioDataOutput ( no objectName ). KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start from kdeinit KCrash: Connect sock_file=/home/rose/.kde4/socket-lynx/kdeinit4__0 unnamed app(13132): Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying" " Could not find '' executable. KCrash: Attempting to start directly KCrash failed to exec(), errno = 2 rose@lynx:/home/rose(33)$ qlist -Iv amarok media-sound/amarok-2.8.90-r2 rose@lynx:/home/rose(34)$ Reemerging phonon, phonon-gstreamer, phonon-vlc, phonon-kde and amarok did not helped either: rose@lynx:/home/rose(38)$ for f in phonon phonon-gstreamer phonon-vlc phonon-kde amarok ; do genlop -t $f | tail -n3 ; done Sun Jun 19 16:27:45 2016 >>> media-libs/phonon-4.9.0 merge time: 1 minute and 7 seconds. Sun Jun 19 16:28:37 2016 >>> media-libs/phonon-gstreamer-4.9.0 merge time: 52 seconds. Sun Jun 19 16:29:18 2016 >>> media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.9.0 merge time: 41 seconds. Sun Jun 19 16:29:53 2016 >>> kde-apps/phonon-kde-16.04.1 merge time: 34 seconds. Sun Jun 19 16:37:27 2016 >>> media-sound/amarok-2.8.90-r2 merge time: 6 minutes and 19 seconds.
I am having the same issue, I am guessing it might be because we are using kde 5 (plasma) rather than 4? Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::angleChanged(int) in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.9.0/work/phonon-4.9.0/phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:65 Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::availableAnglesChanged(int) in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.9.0/work/phonon-4.9.0/phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:66 WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioDataOutput ( no objectName ). KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start from kdeinit KCrash: Connect sock_file=/home/brett/.kde4/socket-enterprise/kdeinit4__0 unnamed app(25559): Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying" " KCrash: Attempting to start directly KCrash failed to exec(), errno = 2
brett@enterprise ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.0 (python 2.7.12-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.26-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.4.26-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-5930K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 65888556 total, 319312 free KiB Swap: 124933116 total, 124933116 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:30:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p48 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.5.2-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.22.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=13 --load-average=13" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac aacplus aacs acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cuda cups cxx dbus declarative dri dropbox dts dvd dvdr egl emboss encode epub exif faad fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif git glamor google gpm gtk iconv imagemagick ipod ipv6 ivorbis java jpeg kde kipi lastfm latex lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors lua mad matroska media mediacenter mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mtp multilib music musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ofa offensive ogg opencl opengl openmp ovftool pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma plymouth png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt3support qt4 qt5 readline samba sdl seccomp semantic-desktop session skins spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg taglib tcpd theora tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vaapi vdpau video visio vix vlc vmware_guest_freebsd vmware_guest_linux vmware_guest_netware vmware_guest_solaris vmware_guest_winPre2k vmware_guest_windows vorbis widevine widgets wma wxwidgets x264 x265 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 pc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-GB en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="nlpsolver scripting-beanshell scripting-javascript wiki-publisher" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia amdgpu nouveau radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
I am using plasma and Amarok 2.8.90-r2 and it works on my end, so something else must be askew. # emerge --info amarok Portage 2.3.3 (python 3.4.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-6.2.0, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.8.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.8.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 16368476 total, 3906408 free KiB Swap: 16776192 total, 16776192 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 03:15:01 +0000 sh bash 4.4_p5-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.27 p1.0) 2.27 distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.3.3 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p5-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.1_rc4::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo, 3.5.2::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.7.1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.22.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r2::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r2::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.12.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1-r1::gentoo, 1.15-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.27::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 6.2.0-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r2::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.8::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.23-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 Local_Overlay location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo eclass-overrides: gentoo Local_Overlay rust location: /var/lib/layman/rust masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=ivybridge -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=ivybridge -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" USE="=-ppp X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avx bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds qml qt qt3support qt4 qt5 readline sdl seccomp semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis widgets wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 emu" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev roccat_tyon" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en-US es" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en es" NETBEANS_MODULES="cnd mobility" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 python3_4 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21 ruby22 ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nouveau intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4 3.5" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= media-sound/amarok-2.8.90-r2::gentoo was built with the following: USE="cdda embedded handbook mtp opengl utils (-aqua) -debug -ipod -lastfm -mp3tunes -ofa -test" ABI_X86="64" L10N="es -bs -ca -ca-valencia -cs -da -de -el -en-GB -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -hu -it -ja -lt -lv -nb -nl -pa -pl -pt -pt-BR -ro -ru -sl -sr -sr-Latn -sr-Latn-ijekavsk -sr-ijekavsk -sv -tr -uk -zh-CN -zh-TW"
Briefly looking at the other emerge --info listed, it seems to be using stable packages (or outdated at least compared to mine). I am running ~amd64. Perhaps a newer update in other packages (KDE or Qt) fixed the issue?
My Amarok also suddenly began to crash on every start with the same error messages. To get rid of the phonon/VLC related errors on Amarok startup, you can emerge Phonon without VLC support (Amarok/Phonon will fall back to Gstreamer backend): USE=-vlc emerge phonon emerge --unmerge phonon-vlc But this did not help the crashing in my case! Instead, the crashing was related to the embedded MySQL support of Amarok. After emerging Amarok without the "embedded"-USE flag, it starts again. USE=-embedded emerge amarok Of course, this means that one needs to set up a dedicated MySQL server in order to use all features of Amarok. I use mostly stable packages on my amd64 system except for kde/qt related packages. Recently upgraded to KDE 5, after which this problem first occurred.
I have to add to my previous comment: I think the "sudden" crashing of Amarok is not related to the KDE5 upgrade which I mentioned. Because I used Amarok with an external MySQL database previously and not the embedded one, even though Amarok was compiled with the "embedded" USE flag. Now with the upgrade to KDE5, I started with a clean home directory and thus Amarok would start in "embedded" mode by default. I guess the program would also have crashed in KDE4 if I had started it with a clean new home dir. So it could be any package that has been upgraded since I first set up Amarok with an external database (many many months ago) which is responsible for the problem with the "embedded" MYSQL feature now. (Maybe mysql package itself?)
I had this problem. I just switched from using 'media-video/ffmpeg' to 'media-video/libav', i.e., `USE=libav emerge -uDN @world` and now amarok works fine with USE="embedded".
USE=embedded is not related to ffmpeg vs. libav at all - $ equery u amarok * Found these USE flags for media-sound/amarok-9999: + + embedded : Use libmysqld, MySQL embedded server library. Try disabling this if you encounter -PIC related in amarok, it will make amarok rely only on standalone MySQL server. I have never been able to reproduce this issue myself (using media-video/ffmpeg as well), and I just re-installed amarok:4 once more to test it without qtwebkit:4.
Please re-open when something like that happens again. Current versions of phonon, phonon-vlc and amarok work fine for me, and USE=embedded is unrelated.
