Bug 317370

Please check your permissions, you need write permissions on all these folders.

Permissions seems ok.

Stracing amarok looks like this:
It seems that the config is written fine, but anyway this thing doesn't work.

5298  stat("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0711, st_size=3950, ...}) = 0
5298  access("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc", R_OK) = 0
5298  access("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc", W_OK) = 0
5298  access("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc", X_OK) = 0
5298  chmod("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrcZL5298.new", 0711) = 0
5298  open("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrcZL5298.new", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = 37
5298  fcntl(37, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)    = 0
5298  lseek(27, 0, SEEK_SET)            = 0
5298  close(27)                         = 0
5298  chmod("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrcZL5298.new", 0711) = 0
5298  fstat(37, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0711, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
5298  write(37, "[$Version]\nupdate_info=amarok.upd:1\n\n[Collection]\nWrite Back Statistics=true\n\n[Collection Browser]\nTreeCategory=5,2,1\nView Mode=NormalCollections\n
\n[Collection Folders]\n1=./hauke/Musik\nUse MusicLocation=false\n\n[Collection Transcoding Preference]\nEncoder=INV"..., 3950) = 3950
5298  fstat(37, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0711, st_size=3950, ...}) = 0
5298  close(37)                         = 0
5298  rename("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrcZL5298.new", "/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc") = 0
5298  unlink("/home/hauke/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc.lock") = 0
5298  close(26)                         = 0

Since I have recently done changes to the scanner I am very interested in knowing if this is a problem that only happens with the latest git version.

My questions:
- Is this a 2.7 or something that you build yourself?
- in your debug log I can't see anything to do with scanner. do you see anything?
- how did you problem first appear? Did you update to 2.7 and only after a rescan everything gone down the drain?

It is a 2.7 from Arch Linux repositories. I didn't build that by myself.

Of course I can't see anything like a scanner in this logs, another search in a strace output for 'scan' doesn't show anything.

My problem appears after updating from 2.7.0-3 -> 2.7.0-4. Now I see that the Arch maintainer switched from mysql to mariadb (https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/amarok&id=dbc7fcc4631fb6f17aaf8150f839047ece00531b) Could this be a/the problem?

I am really confused about this messages from stdout:
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST9500325AS_5VEC451M" : property "DeviceNumber" does not exist 
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST9500325AS_5VEC451M" : property "Device" does not exist 
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD_7580S_SAA1505437" : property "DeviceNumber" does not exist 
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD_7580S_SAA1505437" : property "Device" does not exist 
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST9500325AS_5VEC451M" : property "Drive" does not exist 
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD_7580S_SAA1505437" : property "Drive" does not exist 

I can't find that parameters in any config file.

This is what I reproduced too at this time: Every time I try to 'write' the config in Amarok I got this X BadWindow Error:
amarok(2218)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x5400197

Everybody get's the X error (it's probably from the KDE library) and I also guess the "device" is not the issue.

Now that you pointed out that it's maybe something with sql it could be this:

amarok:         [WARNING] [PluginManager] "Failed to get factory 'amarok_collection-mysqlecollection' from KPluginLoader: Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/amarok_collection-mysqlecollection.so: (libmysqld.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" 

So the local collection library is not even loaded. 
Might this be a problem with the packaging of the Amarok Arch package? Have they even tested it?

The following next steps come to my mind.
- Try out to install the "normal" mysql package
- Try to build Amarok from sources and check if it picks up the right sql library
- Contact the Arch people and point out the issue of a missing dependency

My guess is that Arch people simply switched from MySQL to MariaDB without recompiling Amarok. Extremely silly, again.

The problem is most likely the Arch packaging, not setting the dependencies correctly with their switch to MariaDB.
Since other Arch users solved this with installing the missing packages, I close this as a downstream problem.

Thank you pretty much. The switch from mysql to mariadb solved this issue. There was a problem with the dependency in the arch amarok package I guess.

*** Bug 317455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 317633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 317691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

FWIW: installing MariaDB removes MySQL, so you need to install ALL relevant MariaDB packages:

pacman -S mariadb libmariadbclient mariadb-clients