I've seen this bug reported before and it doesn't make much sense. We don't do anything weird with kresolver.

I got the exact same thing as reported here before. I've solved it now but I'm not sure what was actually the problem, but I can say it's not amarok. What I did was to completely remove all the kdelibs and related things. Then reinstall the required packages again. after tha amarok doesn't crash like that anymore and it can do all the daap things.

I don't know how helpful this is but I am using kde-latest repositories and I build amarok from svn. I am using gnome desktop, and quite a while ago i was messing with kde apps and the repositories so some problems might have come from there.

Well asserts are only thrown if kdelibs are compiled with debug on. So likely your new kdelibs was just compiled differently.

I have this same bug, using the latest Kubuntu packages.

It goes away after I execute "sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop", but I wouldn't really consider that a fix.

You just have a normal kdelibs from Kubuntu?

Can confirm this on Kubuntu Dapper, with kubuntu.org 3.5.4 packages.
Am using mt-daapd which starts fine, can browse for it using zeroconf:/ (appears as "WWW Server"). When trying to add the share, amarok crashes after step 5 in http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Music_Sharing

will create an attachment showing the output from amarok when it crashes.

Cheers
James

Created attachment 17690 [details]
crash information when trying to add a daap share in amarok-1.4.3

Just talked to Riddell, they have kdelibs compiled with debug on, but stripped. He put removing asserts on his todo. 

of course, it would still be nice to not have this issue. I'll send this to kdelibs, they will be more knowledgeable.


Here's the relevant Amarok code that is activating the assert:
QString
DaapClient::resolve( const QString& hostname )
{
    KNetwork::KResolver resolver( hostname );
    resolver.start();
    if( resolver.wait( 5000 ) )
    {
        KNetwork::KResolverResults results = resolver.results();
        debug() << "Resolver error code (0 is no error): " << resolver.errorString( results.error() ) << ' ' << hostname << endl;
        if( !results.empty() )
        {
            QString ip = results[0].address().asInet().ipAddress().toString();
            debug() << "ip found is " << ip << endl;
            return ip;
        }
    }
    return "0"; //error condition
}

I need a backtrace of the failed assertion, with line-numbers.

/tmp/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.4/./kdecore/network/kresolverworkerbase.cpp:136: void KNetwork::KResolverWorkerBase::acquireResolver(): Assertion `th != 0L' failed.

Thiago, this isn't enough?

If not, could someone get a backtrace? Directions are at:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Debugging_HowTo

No, I need to know what called the acquireResolver function and in which context.

This is the first time in 3 years that that assert has been hit.

Created attachment 17715 [details]
output of gdb amarokapp, after running "bt"

Created attachment 17716 [details]
complete output of running gdb amarokapp

Have added attachments showing gdb output. Let me know if I can help further.
Cheers
James

I need debugging symbols and line-numbers, even though I still don't know how this problem is possible.

th is never null at that point (inside run()).

Some Kubuntu specifics that might be generally helpful...

I'm seeing this problem on my Kubuntu-Dapper-plus-hacks-laptop, and the Dapper on there is so hacked up it can't even build anything from source.  So I installed 1.3.3 on my pretty-much-vanilla-Dapper-desktop just to see.  With just 1.3.3 (and its dependencies from backports) installed, Amarok didn't crash.  (It didn't list my DAAP shares either, but that's for another Amarok bug, Ian :) )  On a hunch, I added KDE 3.5.4 sources (from http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-354) and replaced:
 kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1
with:
 kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.4-0ubuntu2~dapper1
(and the associated deps) and restarted Amarok.  It crashed.  So, reverting to stock Dapper kdelibs might be a usable workaround.

As I can't revert those kdelibs packages on my laptop, I'm currently building debug versions of the kdelibs* packages on the desktop so I can generate the full symbol-and-linenumbers backtrace Thiago needs.  I'll post more info when I have some.

I meant 1.4.3.  D'oh.

Created attachment 17840 [details]
Backtrace with line numbers

Finally managed to get Ubuntu's 3.5.4 package to build from source with debug. 
Here's a backtrace with line numbers.

Think I know what the problem is, but not the best way to fix it.

1. A RequestData gets put on the work queue for some KResolverThread to do
2. A KResolverThread gets started, and runs its own run(), which calls requestData(), which calls findData().
3. findData() locates the RequestData structure in the queue.  The RequestData structure (called "data") already has a worker object (a *KGetAddrinfoWorker*...this is important!) and some data, and findData does "data->worker->th = <the current KResolverThread>", so th is initialised.  Control returns to KResolverThread::run().
4. KResolverThread decides to do the work, and calls data->worker->run(), which is really KGetAddrinfoWorker::run().
5. KGetAddrinfoWorker::run() creates a GetAddrInfoThread object and calls GetAddrInfoThread::run() on it.

So, we have a class hierarchy something like (forgive the ASCII):

      KResolverWorkerBase (the class that owns "th")
        /              \
GetAddrInfoThread   KStandardWorker
                        |
                    KGetAddrinfoWorker

findData initialized "th" in the KGetAddrinfoWorker.  That worker, when run, decided to create another worker, a GetAddrInfoThread, and hand the work to him - but in the GetAddrInfoThread worker "th" is uninitialized.  "th" is private in the base class, so only three classes can get at it: KResolverWorkerBase, and KResolverManagers and KResolverThread because they're "friend"s.

Solutions:
1. It's not really clear to me why there are two kinds of getaddrinfo() handler; if we had just one, this wouldn't be a problem.  So, combine the two into one class, avoiding the need to delegate.
2. Pass in an optional "th" to the GetAddrInfoThread constructor.
3. Make "th" protected instead of private, and do "newworker.th = th" in KGetAddrinfoWorker::run().
4. The dirtiest hack is simply to remove the assert.  The lookup works without it, and this might be because no data is actually ever accessed via 'th' (and this might explain why the problem has only just started cropping up - I'll bet it's just the first time the assert has been turned on in years).  I can't tell for sure because in my subtree I can't see where RES_INIT_THREADSAFE comes from, which affects things.

I think solution 1 is the cleanest, but Thiago probably knows best.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, but bear in mind that this code has existed for 3 years already and this is, so far, the only case where the assert is ever hit. So there has to be a race condition never before seen here.

I don't see how findData() can find a RequestData that already has a worker (step 3 in your list). "newRequests" contains only elements with th == 0 (because that's how they are created). Whenever "th" is set, it's also removed from "newRequests".

Maybe if one of you guys can show me this error live in Dublin, I can fix it.

Ok, I see the error. KGetAddrinfoWorker creates a worker on the stack and doesn't schedule it for running. Since it never goes through findData(), "th" is never set to anything.

SVN commit 586828 by ianmonroe:

 r6793@wasabi:  ian | 2006-09-20 12:57:28 -0500
 Thiago's work around for a KResolver bug activated when kdelibs is compiled with
 asserts on (like is done in KUbuntu).
 CCBUG: 132851
 CCMAIL: imbrandon@kubuntu.org
 


 _M            . (directory)  
 M  +2 -0      ChangeLog  
 M  +1 -0      src/mediadevice/daap/daapclient.cpp  


--- trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/ChangeLog #586827:586828
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
     * Show a proper tag dialog when viewing information for DAAP music shares.
 
   BUGFIXES:
+    * The DAAP client would crash Amarok under certain conditions when 
+      kdelibs was compiled with asserts on. (BR 132851)
     * Configuring the toolbar would disable the stop button. Patch by 
       Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 132477)
     * Xine-engine: Pausing during crossfade would not work properly. Patch by
--- trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/mediadevice/daap/daapclient.cpp #586827:586828
@@ -526,6 +526,7 @@
 DaapClient::resolve( const QString& hostname )
 {
     KNetwork::KResolver resolver( hostname );
+    resolver.setFamily( KNetwork::KResolver::KnownFamily ); //A drudic incantation from Thiago. Works around a KResolver bug #132851
     resolver.start();
     if( resolver.wait( 5000 ) )
     {

KResolver is no longer maintained.