Regression alert: Random freezing/crashing

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Marius <rara at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
> 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)

Wow, thanks a lot for the work.

Bart, any ideas on this?

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
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