<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Salamadir,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 18:40, salamandir <<a href="mailto:salamandir@hybridelephant.com">salamandir@hybridelephant.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">i'm using kubuntu trusty (14.04.1), and i don't know what version of amarok i'm using, because it won't start.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">basically, when i click on the icon, it comes up already minimised to the systray, and when i try to activate it from the systray, it draws about a quarter of the screen and then hangs up, and crashes after a minute or so. if i try to restart it, it comes up minimised, and when i try to activate it, it draws about a quarter of the screen, and then crashes immediately.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Your version (2.8.0) is relatively old, so is your distribution. Despite that, if Amarok has worked before on this installation, there is no reason it suddenly stops to work. Did you by change make an update or removed some packages? This is usually the most likely culprit. Another idea could be some changed access rights (this involves usually running chown and/or chmod on the command line) on folders Amarok needs to have access to.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono';font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal">
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">i tried starting it from the terminal, with "amarok --debug", and i got a huge pile of text, which i can forward if necessary, but i'm wondering if it's due to a known bug, and the solution is to upgrade my OS...</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We would only need the exact part of the text where the crash happens, ideally this should be submitted as a bug report, as a mailinglist is not exactly the best medium to handle bugs. I can't tell if this is a known bug without more information.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best regards, Myriam</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:left">Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community</div><div style="text-align:left">Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE:</div><div style="text-align:left"><a href="http://www.fsfe.org" target="_blank">http://www.fsfe.org</a><a href="http://www.fsfe.org" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div style="text-align:left">Please don't send me proprietary file formats,</div><div style="text-align:left">use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)</div></div></div></div></div>