Bug 155756 – amarok configuration problem with upgrade, audio plugin and mimetype errors.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Boris Carlitov 2006-11-20 05:03:13 UTC]

I recently upgraded to kde 3.5 and amarok stopped working.  I get this message in a popup:

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Amarok could not find any sound-engine plugins. Amarok is now updating the KDE configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then restart Amarok.
If this does not help, it is likely that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
$ su -c "make uninstall"
$ ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
$ kbuildsycoca
$ amarok
More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and in the konsole window I get:

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kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'audio/midi'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'audio/x-aac'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'audio/x-m4a'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ark_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/english'
...[this continues]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

amarok does not start.

When I download the source directly and install it into /usr/kde/3.5/ everything works fine.  xine audio plugin is detected and there are no mimetype errors. It seems that there is some configuration issue with the gentoo ebuild.  

There are a number of "fixes" on the forums, such as changing various permissions on files or directories, copying ksycoca from the root user to my user and changing permissions.  None of these solutions work for me (in fact I posted one of the solutions for a previous upgrade of kde and it no longer works as well).

ladybug abak # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs dbus divx4linux dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn imagemagick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux lapack latex lcms ldap libg++ linguas_en lm_sensors mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mozilla mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql mythtv nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl php png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection rtc samba sdl session sndfile spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subtitles subversion tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nvidia vidix vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-11-20 05:25:17 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130052 ***

[Comment 2 Boris Carlitov 2006-11-20 06:00:54 UTC]

Huh?  How is bug  130052  a fix?  I just installed and it's still broken. The bug is for 1.4.beta, I'm installing 1.4.4 and still getting the problem.

please _actually_ fix so that I can 'emerge amarok' and have it work.

Isn't that the standard for "works"