Bug 113206

Version:           amarok-1.3.2-1.fc4 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) (I assume; I'm using the amaroK RPM from Fedora Extras)
OS:                Linux

Quite often, on my laptop, amaroK will stop playing in the middle of a playlist -- different places each time, it's not a particular song that's an issue. When this happens, it's completely wedged; clicking on the systray icon doesn't respond either. The only thing I can do is killall amarokapp and restart it. I *think* it generally happens when going from track to track in a playlist, as opposed to in the middle of a song, but it's hard to tell because amaroK is frozen when it happens and I can't check what the status is.

Some more details about my system:
- Fedora Core 4
- amarok-1.3.2-1.fc4 from Fedora Extras
- amarok-xine-1.3.2-0.1.fc4.kde from kde-redhat.sourceforge.net
- I'm using the xine engine with the alsa output plugin, and other xine settings as default
- I've got dmix configured on my alsa; my sound card is an Intel onboard thing without hardware mixing (ALSA driver is snd_intel8x0)
- My music collection is in Ogg Vorbis

This seems to happen more often when the CPU is under load, but again I could be imagining it.

When it happens again, what should I do to help track it down? Is connecting to the running amarokapp process with gdb and getting a backtrace a useful thing to do, for instance?