Bug 198086

Summary:	"Multiple background tasks running" message appears and never goes away
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	doc.evans
Component:	Playlist	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description doc.evans 2009-06-27 22:37:45 UTC

Version:           2.1.1 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-13-generic

These seems to happen every day or two:

I look at the amarok window and see that "Multiple background tasks are running", and the progress bar is sitting at 13%. If I expand the view to see what the tasks are, I see six (6) instances of "generating playlist".

According to "top" amarok doesn't seem actually to be doing anything, and even if I wait for hours, the progress meter doesn't change and the "Multiple background tasks running" message never goes away.

The only thing I seem to be able to do is simply hit the "Abort all background operations" button. That works... until the next time the message appears.

Comment 1 A. Spehr 2009-06-28 01:05:25 UTC

*** Bug 198099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 doc.evans 2009-06-29 20:45:31 UTC

Additional info:

Once amarok enters this state, it seems that dynamic playlists stop working properly: as one song finishes, instead of a new song being appended on to the playlist, nothing happens. So after a while all the songs on the playlist have been played and the music stops :-(

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-07-16 10:05:35 UTC

I can't reproduce this, but running 2.2-SVN here. Anybody else?

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-08-02 12:47:25 UTC

Still can't reproduce this with today's git build. Closing as solved.