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derblub

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Registered: 2011-04-25

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[SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

Hi there,

as the title says, my Amarok isn't starting anymore since I did the latest update (from today to 2.4.1-3).
I see my bouncing logo animation on the cursor for a few seconds and after that it just disappears and nothing happens.

Did this happen to anyone else? Any hints what I can do now to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by derblub (2011-06-28 22:13:52)

spctrl

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Registered: 2010-06-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

Try running it from a console and see what it outputs, additionally check .xsession-errors for anything related. "Something doesn't start" isn't really going to get you any help

derblub

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Re: [SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

Ok, sorry for that - just thought someone else run into that too - now some details:

[blub ~ ]$  amarok                                                                                                                                
KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work              
amarok: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_inp_cdda.so: undefined symbol: xine_get_homedir                                  
unnamed app(4575): Communication problem with  "amarok" , it probably crashed.                                                                    
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The name org.kde.amarok was not provided by any .service files" " 

[blub ~ ]$  sudo amarok                                                                                                                           
unnamed app(4881): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified                                                                                                                           
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.                                                                                                      
"                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                  
unnamed app(4880): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.     

[blub ~ ]$  kdesu amarok                                                                                                                          
kdesu(4586) startApp: Daemon not safe (not sgid), not using it.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                  
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ]  Running "/bin/su"                      
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "                 
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ]  Running "/bin/su"                      
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "                 
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::WaitSlave: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/process.cpp : 379 ]  Child pid 4593                    
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line ""                           
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "kdesu_stub"                 
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ]  Running "/bin/su"                      
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "                 
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::WaitSlave: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/process.cpp : 379 ]  Child pid 4597                    
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line ""                           
kdesu(4586)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.6.3/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "kdesu_stub" 

in my .xsession-errors I'm seeing just this - not sure if it's really related

[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] '' is not a UTF8 or latin1 string                                                                                   
'' is not a UTF8 or latin1 string                                                                                                                 
'' is not a UTF8 or latin1 string                                                                                                                 
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] virtual void Soprano::Server::LocalServer::incomingConnection(quintptr)                                             
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] void Soprano::Server::ServerCorePrivate::addConnection(Soprano::Server::ServerConnection*) New connection. New count: 9                                                                                                                                               
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] Soprano::ODBC::Connection::Connection() Soprano::Server::ServerConnection(0xa692a0) 

and

yakuake(1539)/kdeui (KWindowInfo) KWindowInfo::desktop: Pass NET::WMDesktop to KWindowInfo 

stuffel

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Registered: 2011-06-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

Looks like the phonon-xine backend is having trouble...

Does it help if you switch to the phonon-vlc backend instead?

spctrl

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Registered: 2010-06-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

Yeah, the xine backend is sadly unmaintained, so better switch to phonon-gstreamer or phonon-vlc as stated above.

derblub

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Registered: 2011-04-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Amarok not starting up after the latest update

awesome - thanks stuffel and spctrl - switching from xine to phonon-vlc helped - everything working again now