Regression alert: Random freezing/crashing

[Marius]

Heya,

on Friday 17 December 2010 23:37 Marius <rara at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> on Friday 17 December 2010 10:45 Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > Ahoy,
> > 
> > several users (including me) have seen an issue in Git Master:
> > 
> > Amarok would randomly freeze, or crash completely, while doing normal
> > playback. For me, the debug output always indicates that it happens
> > inside one of our applets. The error message is very bizarre.
> > 
> > Something like: "QPixmap cannot be used without initializing
> > QApplication. Fatal Error."
> > 
> > Also, I'm getting tons of warnings from QPixmapCache. Possibly related?
> > 
> > 
> > If anyone can reproduce this, please send debug output and backtrace
> > here, thanks!

git bisect says the freeze was introduced by Bart's commit 
9ab7462612680caa5af99285aca0b8b186ac893e (Implement metadataChanged() to keep 
the view from resetting)

Cheers,
Marius