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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Myriam,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the tip. Handy indeed.<br>
<br>
Alas not all that helpful in the end. Reasonn being:<br>
<br>
1) Slight fix needed: amarok -d --nofork >& amarok.log, as
the log goes to stderr it seems. <br>
2) It's very verbose and doesn't mirror the on-screen errors so
hard to home in on the issue.<br>
<br>
Seems on the todo for Amarok would be ideally to mirror all
on-screen messages to a log file. But here is what I have learned
and how I did.<br>
<br>
How I learned:<br>
<br>
1) I installed SimpleScreenRecorder and recorded the startup.<br>
2) I installed avidemux and stepped through the recording frame by
frame<br>
<br>
What I learned:<br>
<br>
1) These little messages actually have little vertical progress
bar on their left side which runs a timer down and the message
disappears when it expires.<br>
2) Could be that the timer is a wee bit fast on account of rapid
speed increases in hardware since implementation? Either way, it
would seem configurable somehow.<br>
3) All the messages ultimately could be traced to the scripts I
had installs:<br>
a) Cool Streams<br>
b) Free Music Charts<br>
c) Librivox<br>
4) Disabled these and no more messages<br>
<br>
Conclusion:<br>
<br>
! Defunct scripts<br>
<br>
Extra evidence:<br>
<br>
1) When I disabled the scripts and closed the "Configure - Amarok"
dialog box, Amarok crashed. <br>
<br>
I'd like to look more closely at the code at some time and will
post separately a question regarding the hows there.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Bernd.<br>
<br>
Myriam Schweingruber wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi Bernd,
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Bernd Wechner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bwechner@yahoo.com"><bwechner@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
> When I start Amarok I get a number of failed connection messages in the
> bottom right corner pop up. Not particularly well rendered nor easy to use
> as they pop up and go away. Can I see these messages in a log file anywhere
> as they identify sites it's trying to connect to, perhaps scripts I have,
> and I'd like to be abvle to read the error at leisure and test the
> connection. Alas look as I might I have failed to find an Amarok log file.
>
There is no log file by default as it could get extremely huge and is
usually not helpful for most purposes to the users, but you can very
easily create one by starting amarok in debug mode in a konsole and
redirect this to a text file. Just start amarok in a konsole with
amarok -d --nofork > amarok.log
I suggest you close amarok once the error messages are gone, else this
file will get really huge :-)
Regards, Myriam
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