Amarok 1.4.1 very unstable on x86_64

Frederik Himpe fhimpe at telenet.be
Mon Jul 31 17:31:24 UTC 2006


On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:05:09 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Frederik Himpe wrote:
>> I found out that the culprit was a buggy patch applied to libpng in
>> Mandriva Cooker. A big thanks to everyone who looked into this problem,
>> especially to Alexandre Oliveira who noticed the fact that libpng was
>> involved in most of the crashes.
>> 
>> Only one crash left when playing mp3 files, and this one is because
>> libxine has not been build with external mad, so that's easy to solve too.
>> Other than that, amarok svn now works completely stable!
> 
> Excellent news!
> 
> Have the libpng issue been fixed now in cooker or are you running your 
> own verson? My lib64png3 is pretty old now: lib64png3-1.2.12-1mdv2007.0

The libpng packager knows about the problem now:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23484

I'm currently running my own libpng version with problematic patch2
disabled.

-- 
Frederik




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