Amarok stopped working.

Convergence · 2006-07-27 18:57:59

The symptoms are similar to when 1.4 came out, and it wouldn't take old database info from sqlite. Nothing appears in the "collection" tab. It will scan my files, and when it is done, nothing appears. I've tried both mysql (which is what I was using since the problem with 1.4) and sqlite, with the exact same results.

Here's what happened. Yesterday, I was listening to Fear Factory, surfing the web, and I had just started a "pacman -Syu" within yakuake. Suddenly, amarok starts repeating the same one second segment of a song over and over again. I realize I have no mouse or keyboard control, and ctrl-alt-f1 fails, as well as ctl-alt-bckspc. I reboot, and I have my current problem. Oh yeah, a little while earlier, I had used amarok's "organize files" option to move some files around, but I don't think that is the problem, because, just to eliminate that variable, I temporarily completely removed all of those files to another directory that amarok doesn't use, and that didn't solve the problem.

Convergence · 2006-07-27 19:22:24

OK, problem solved...sorta. I deleted ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok re-ran the "first-run" wizard and told it to go back to mysql. That didn't work, so then I repeated the process, but this time told it to use sqlite, and that worked. Maybe when my system crashed, my mysql database corrupted? I don't know much about databases, and if this is even possible, but just for curiousity's sake, I'd like to know if this was a likely cause.

VLegacy · 2006-07-28 22:20:19

The new version of mysql in current (5.0.23-1) is what is causing the problem. This happened to me on two machines after updating it, and downgrading to the previous version, 5.0.22-1, fixed it in both cases.

You can downgrade with the following command:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mysql-5.0.22-1.pkg.tar.gz

MartinZ · 2006-07-29 08:48:02

same problem here

Prieto · 2006-08-10 20:31:29

I can confirm that downgrading to mysql-5.0.22-1 solves the problem.

VLegacy · 2006-08-10 22:09:26

You can tell pacman not to upgrade mysql by editing /etc/pacman.conf and adding

IgnorePkg mysql

to it. If an IgnorePkg line already exists, you can just append mysql to it, for example

IgnorePkg otherpackage mysql

I've found that using the config file to prevent mysql from being upgraded when I run pacman -Syu is a little more convenient than specifying "--ignore mysql" every time.

tpowa · 2006-08-12 11:46:22

have you tried if a clean user does work? perhaps only amarok config is broken somewhere.
also try latest mysql-5.0.24

headhunter · 2006-08-12 12:38:35

Hello,

I got the same problems too. A clean user fixes nothing - the problem is due to mysql. Sqlite works fine..

Prieto · 2006-08-14 13:01:12

5.0.24 doesn't work, either.
I'll keep 5.0.22 until this gets fixed.

VLegacy · 2006-08-15 13:49:04

Though I haven't gone so far as to try a new user, when I first encountered the problem, I removed my amarokrc file, and it didn't help.

No luck with 5.0.24 for me, either... had to downgrade back to 5.0.22.

subatomic · 2006-08-17 20:14:59

5.0.24 doesn't work in Berlin either...

VLegacy · 2006-09-05 20:35:45

From the Amarok 1.4.2 announcement on http://amarok.kde.org:

Amarok now works with MySQL >5.0.23

I know, I know, I'm behind the times.

kth5 · 2006-09-05 21:52:49

subatomic wrote:

5.0.24 doesn't work in Berlin either...

Will work fine still when I get back to Berlin, in Prague I just tried it trhogh X forward. ;p

scarecrow · 2006-09-05 22:13:19

1.4.2 didn't cut the cake with the current Arch mySQL (the -sqlfree build works fine), but anyway it didn't last long- 1.4.3 is already out...
Nothing related to mySQL in the changelog, though.

subatomic · 2006-09-11 20:23:18

amarokapp: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

after upgrading from current

amarok-base 1.4.3-1
mysql 5.0.24a-1

$ locate libmysqlclient
/var/lib/pacman/current/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1
/var/lib/pacman/current/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1/desc
/var/lib/pacman/current/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1/depends
/var/lib/pacman/local/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1
/var/lib/pacman/local/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1/desc
/var/lib/pacman/local/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1/depends
/var/lib/pacman/local/libmysqlclient-5.0.24a-1/files
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.1
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.1
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so

so where's the problem?

tpowa · 2006-09-12 06:34:18

cannot confirm this here it runs fine

Arch Linux

#1 2006-07-27 18:57:59

Amarok stopped working.

#2 2006-07-27 19:22:24

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#3 2006-07-28 22:20:19

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