Amarok crashes when using amarok wrapper, but amarokapp alone does not.

[Donn Washburn]

You might run "ldd amarok" and/or "strace -o amarok.err amarok" and see 
if something shows up missing.  When you have it crash then do
"tail amarok.err" (man tail for more options).

Charles Jones wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I am fairly new to Amarok.  I have, however, done some research on my 
> issue before posting here.  The problem that I am experiencing is that 
> Amarok will inevitably crash during just about any type of usage.  I 
> could be retagging a group of mp3s, or just listening to a playlist.  
> Within the first 3-5 minutes, it will lock up.
> 
> After reading through the forums, wiki, and other advice out there, I 
> found that running strace on amarokapp is the best way to find where the 
> issue is coming from.  However, when I would use this technique, Amarok 
> would work without any issues at all.  I tried and tried to reproduce 
> the problem using this technique, to no avail.  This leads me to the 
> conclusion that the problem is related to the amarok binary, and not the 
> amarokapp binary.  I know that amarok is just a wrapper, but for some 
> reason, amarokapp works flawlessly for me when I DON'T use the amarok 
> wrapper.  Am I losing any critical functionality by not running amarok?
> 
> Here is some of my system information:
> Amarok 1.4.4 (Compiled from source)
> Slackware 11
> Enlightenment "e17" (as desktop shell)
> Mysql 5.0.24a (I get the same issues using the SQLite db)
> KDE 3.5.4
> Xine-lib 1.1.2
> Ruby 1.8.4
> Taglib 1.4
> Nvidia drivers 1.0-8762
> LibVisual 0.4.0
> Libtunepimp  0.4.2
> XMMS 1.2.10
> K3b 0.12.17
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Charles
> 
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