Version: 1.2.4 (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050701 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.0-12) OS: Linux amaroK crashes on startup. It shows me the splash screen then loads the UI and immediately crashes. The splash screen stays up until I click on it. It didn't happen before, but my PC just crashed and I had to do a reboot. Now after that it crashes. amaroK was running while the PC crashed, but no music was playing. When I run amaroK from Konsole I get this output: amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::statusText( const QString& ) to (null)::shortMessage( const QString& ) QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::infoMessage( const QString& ) to (null)::longMessage( const QString& ) QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing... I don't have amaroK compiled with debug symbols so a backtrace wouldn't probably mean a thing.
Ok, but without a backtrace there's nothing we can do about it, we can just gess what's happening, sorry. Please consider reading http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_obtain_a_decent_backtrace.3F and getting us a backtrace if possible.
Just happened to me today. Amarok was playing. I restarted KDE and now amarok crashes at startup with *exactly* the same effects as described. I get the same output when launching from konsole. As for the backtrace, my version of amarok is from a debian unstable package, so I guess the backtrace can't be used.
Problem fixed by removing ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc if that might help. Renaming ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/ didn't help, so it might be a pb with amarokrc itself I guess.
I have also encountered this problem with the debian/unstable package, with a minor difference in the output ('cannot paint null pixmap'): amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::statusText( const QString& ) to (null)::shortMessage( const QString& ) QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::infoMessage( const QString& ) to (null)::longMessage( const QString& ) QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing... If I rename amarokrc, the splash screen pops up, then the application crashes as in the original bug report (no null pixmap error). I've attempted to rebuild with full-debug enabled in the debian source package, but am encoutering build errors and cannot yet obtain a backtrace. -Mike
Well I have temporarily got rid of the bug by removing amarokrc, but accidentally I didn't keep the original amarokrc. I will try to reproduce the bug but I doubt I will succeed. Also I have the same problem with Juk(crashes on startup).
I am actually using SuSE Linux, so I don't know if I need to start a new thread or what, but I have the same problem. I tried deleting the amarokrc file and it still crashed. I'm new to Linux and I don't even know how to compile anything with debug symbols, so for what it's worth I'm giving the backtrace. [KCrash handler] #7 0x080df1c6 in ContextBrowser::staticMetaObject () #8 0x0819d439 in amaroK::DcopPlayerHandler::staticMetaObject () #9 0x081a1ff0 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler () #10 0x40e4f1f2 in DCOPClient::receive () from /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #11 0x40e53e26 in DCOPClient::callAsync () from /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #12 0x40e5447e in DCOPClient::processPostedMessagesInternal () from /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #13 0x40e552aa in DCOPClient::qt_invoke () from /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #14 0x41174e7e in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #15 0x41175626 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x414ca619 in QTimer::timeout () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x4119a02f in QTimer::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0x41111d5f in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #19 0x41113a83 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #20 0x40d9d6b1 in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #21 0x4110650c in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #22 0x410bf286 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x41129e51 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0x411138bf in QApplication::enter_loop () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0x4130bb32 in QDialog::exec () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0x0808b9de in App::staticMetaObject () #27 0x08090f90 in App::staticMetaObject () #28 0x0819c788 in TrackPickerDialogBase::staticMetaObject () #29 0x41b80e80 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #30 0x08086401 in ?? ()
One of the incompatible amarok plugins might cause the crash. Try removing the amarok-plugin rpms by YaST and install them again, but one by one and after each plugin installation try starting amarok...You may find it out... Good Luck...
Removing the amarok-plugins did not solve the problem. Deleting the amarokrc made it only worse. My way was a bit longer (more than 3 days to be exactly): I removed amarok and all plugins. Additionally I removed libvisual (probably not necessary). Then I searched for all amarok files rested in the filesystem. I removed all scripts, all setting files, all database files. What I left on my drive were the album covers. After reinstallation amarok did not crash anymore. BTW: My backtrace looked like the one in comment #7.
Ok, thanks for testing. Closing.
Application: Amarok (amarok), signal SIGSEGV [?1034h(no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7f9af0ddf740 (LWP 3757)] [New Thread 0x42994950 (LWP 3763)] [New Thread 0x42193950 (LWP 3762)] [New Thread 0x410ec950 (LWP 3761)] [New Thread 0x41992950 (LWP 3758)] (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [KCrash handler] #5 0x00007f9aeccf49fd in QString::fromAscii_helper () from /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4 #6 0x00007f9aeccf4a9e in QString::fromAscii () from /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4 #7 0x00007f9ad93f27df in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so #8 0x00007f9ad93f3eb3 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so #9 0x00007f9ad93ce700 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so #10 0x00007f9af0905704 in CollectionManager::init () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #11 0x00007f9af0905c3d in CollectionManager::instance () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #12 0x00007f9af089f41d in ServiceFactory::ServiceFactory () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #13 0x00007f9ada1d7fd6 in create_plugin () from /usr/lib64/kde4/amarok_service_shoutcast.so #14 0x00007f9af09a185f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #15 0x00007f9af08b3c8f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #16 0x00007f9af08b46cd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #17 0x00007f9af086b156 in Playlist::Model::Model () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #18 0x00007f9af086bc3d in Playlist::Model::instance () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #19 0x00007f9af096680d in StatusBar::StatusBar () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #20 0x00007f9af0996edb in MainWindow::MainWindow () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #21 0x00007f9af097f78a in App::continueInit () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #22 0x00007f9af0980fb0 in App::App () from /usr/lib64/libamaroklib.so.1 #23 0x00000000004043f9 in _start () #0 0x00007f9ae62a3261 in nanosleep () from /lib64/libc.so.6