| Summary: | amarok crashes on startup | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | Paul Millar <paul.millar> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | crash | Keywords: | drkonqi |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 2.8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 2.9 | ||
| Platform: | Debian unstable | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315286 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Paul Millar
2013-11-14 17:21:44 UTC
What Plasma theme are you using? Seems the crash is related. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which theme is in use as the "System Settings" application also crashes when examining the desktop themes (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327642 ). Please let me know if there's some other way of discovering this. I haven't really adjusted the desktop themes, so should be using the default theme that Debian comes with. If it helps, the background image on one monitor shows an Art-Deco-style grey burst and the other shows overlapping curved shapes in blue, with a purple highlight in the bottom-right corner and a cyan highlight top-left. Incidentally, I did notice that the debian package 'plasma-desktopthemes-artwork' is currently not installed on my machine. I installed this, but there was no noticable improvement: both amarok and System Settings continued to crash. Hm, sounds like something is really wrong if the Systemsettings crash as well. Please check you really have all basic KDE packages, which are: plasma-desktop, kde-baseapps, kde-baseapps-data kde-base-artwork, kde-runtime, kde-runtime-data, kde-workspace, kde-workspace-bin, kde-workspace-data I don't know for Debian, but Kubuntu has some metapackages that drag in these, the metapackage names are, depending on the extend of KDE application you want kde-standard or kde-full *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 305654 *** Hi Myriam, I have all those installed: paul@zitpcx6184:~$ dpkg-query -W|egrep '(plasma-desktop|kde-baseapps|kde-base-artwork|kde-runtime|kde-workspace)' kde-base-artwork 4:4.11.3-1 kde-baseapps-bin 4:4.11.3-1 kde-baseapps-data 4:4.11.3-1 kde-runtime 4:4.11.3-1 kde-runtime-data 4:4.11.3-1 kde-runtime-dbg 4:4.11.3-1 kde-workspace 4:4.11.3-1 kde-workspace-bin 4:4.11.3-1 kde-workspace-data 4:4.11.3-1 kde-workspace-dbg 4:4.11.3-1 kde-workspace-kgreet-plugins 4:4.11.3-1 plasma-desktop 4:4.11.3-1 plasma-desktopthemes-artwork 4:4.11.3-1 paul@zitpcx6184:~$ Note that this bug was marked a duplicate of bug 305654, which his since been closed as mis-reported. This bug-report still stands and so marking this bug a duplicate is wrong. I've switched it back to UNCONFIRMED, which I think was the status before being marked as a duplicate. Paul, the problem is an issue with KImageCache. No doubt it's a KDE bug, but try this workaround for now: "rm /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/Amarok-pixmaps.kcache" TODO: Reassign bug to KDE. Here's some potentially illuminating information. I was running short of space in /var/tmp and deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-paul (it's "tmp" so should be deletable, right?). The directory currently exists, but I now don't find any Amarok-pixmaps.kcache file or any other file with 'amarok' (case-insensitive) in the name, so cannot test (or take advantage) of this work-around. However, this then raises another question: could my deleting of /var/tmp/kdecache-paul have triggered this problem? Potentially yes, as the bug is probably related to caches. Although just clearing the cache shouldn't break anything. If you reopen this bug again, please state why it is different from bug 305654. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 305654 *** |