Bug 109762 – media-sound/amarok crashes (and tries to run kmail)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Sumit Khanna 2005-10-18 18:02:22 UTC]

amarok will crash every once in a while when switching songs with the error
"Can't start kmail" It then cleanly exits. Why the heck would amarok want to
start kmail? Why would this crash amarok? Does kmail need to be added as a
dependcy? I really won't want to emerge all that KDE stuff just to use amarok
(using Gnome right now)

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Amarok
2. Press play
3. Waith 10 min or so

Actual Results:  
amarok exits with failure to execute kmail

Expected Results:  
amarok should not crash

Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.11.6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1900+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 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
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb
bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode
esd fam flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod
mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pda
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sdl slang spell sse
ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis
win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-10-18 21:39:14 UTC]

Which version of amaroK are you using? Which backend? Which version of the backend?

The crashes are on their own, amaroK tries to launch KMail after crash to submit a backtrace to the 
authors, that can be ignored, as it's an effect of the crash, not a cause.

[Comment 2 Sumit Khanna 2005-10-19 05:21:50 UTC]

amarok-1.3.3

It was using xine engine with an autodetect for the output plugin. I'm going to
try gstreamer and see if it has the same issue

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-12-02 04:12:02 UTC]

Is still an issue with amaroK 1.3.6? 

[Comment 4 Stephan Verbücheln 2005-12-08 14:18:20 UTC]

i think, the problem is caused by Berkley DB (sys-libs/db), but i am not sure.

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-12-18 13:15:10 UTC]

db isn't linked in either amaroK nor xine, so it can't be.
Considering a dupe of the other bug and please try with 1.3.7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102662 ***