After updating KDE 4.7.4 to the now stable version 4.8.1 I noticed that the context applets in Amarok disappeared. There's also a report in the Amarok forum on kde.org. A solution is also provided, but it seems this patch hasn't been included in amarok-2.4.3 yet. A patch has been provided for Amarok 2.5 already: *amarok-2.5.0-r2 (09 Feb 2012) 09 Feb 2012; Johannes Huber <johu@gentoo.org> +amarok-2.5.0-r2.ebuild, +files/amarok-2.5.0-kde48.patch: Rev bump, adds upstream patch for gui issues with kde 4.8, fixes bug #402131. Does a patch for Amarok 2.4.3 exist? Or is it possible to apply the above patch to Amarok 2.4.3 somehow? Or is it possible to stabilize Amarok 2.5 soon? As the stable KDE 4.8.1 breaks an important feature in Amarok this should be fixed asap.
I naively applied the given patch to amarok-2.4.3-r1 - applied fine, built fine, and I even have context working :D But when closing amarok it crashed - had nothing to do with the context, but the collection: Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f079956d780 (LWP 14296)): [KCrash Handler] #6 0x0000000000eca69a in ?? () #7 0x00007f079840edfe in qDeleteAll<QList<Collections::CollectionFactory*>::const_iterator> (end=..., begin=...) at /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qalgorithms.h:322 #8 qDeleteAll<SmartPointerList<Collections::CollectionFactory> > (c=...) at /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qalgorithms.h:330 #9 CollectionManager::~CollectionManager (this=0xe9aee0, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /var/tmp/paludis/media-sound-amarok-2.4.3-r1/work/amarok-2.4.3/src/core-impl/collections/support/CollectionManager.cpp:138 #10 0x00007f079840ef79 in CollectionManager::~CollectionManager (this=0xe9aee0, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /var/tmp/paludis/media-sound-amarok-2.4.3-r1/work/amarok-2.4.3/src/core-impl/collections/support/CollectionManager.cpp:140 #11 0x00007f079840d1c6 in CollectionManager::destroy () at /var/tmp/paludis/media-sound-amarok-2.4.3-r1/work/amarok-2.4.3/src/core-impl/collections/support/CollectionManager.cpp:107 #12 0x00007f07985308e8 in App::~App (this=0x7fff1666d800, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /var/tmp/paludis/media-sound-amarok-2.4.3-r1/work/amarok-2.4.3/src/App.cpp:248 #13 0x0000000000409638 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff1666fe08) at /var/tmp/paludis/media-sound-amarok-2.4.3-r1/work/amarok-2.4.3/src/main.cpp:287 I downgraded from 2.5.0 to 2.4.3-r1, so probably an issue with config/database/... Try if the patch works for you, start and close (read: completely close, not "close to systray") - does it crash? (the patch does not touch collection, so I am sure all will go fine).
AH! The crash is due to this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285951 Qt-4.8 + amarok-2.4.3 causes problems. So the amarok-2.5.0-kde48.patch could be applied to 2.4.3 as well.
(In reply to comment #2) > AH! The crash is due to this bug: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285951 > Qt-4.8 + amarok-2.4.3 causes problems. Qt-4.8.1 went stable, so this issue will bug people. Should I post a seperate report or are there plans to mark amarok-2.5.0-r2 stable?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 415481 ***
