Amarok 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 freeze

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> I checked ldd output. Everything is normal. In fact, I
> was able to compile amarok 1.4.6 myself.
>
> Let me be clearer about this freezing issue:
>
> When the player is playing with xine engine for a
> while, the music stops all of a sudden. It happens in
> the middle of the track; not necessarily while
> changing the track. I call this a soft freeze.
>
> The reason is: I can still minimize and maximize the
> amarok window, access the above menus etc. I can even
> push Quit to leave amarok. The GUI is not yet
> completely frozen, it redraws well when I
> minimize/maximize. The buttons are clickable, however
> the visualizer next to the buttons is frozen, as if it
> is like paused. However the paused button is not
> pushed down. Whenever I click any of the buttons
> (pause, stop, previous, next), GUI freezes.
>
> I call this a hard freeze. Nothing is accessable from
> now on and I have to kill amarok.
>
> On my previous post I attached a gdb backtrace during
> a "soft freeze". The attachment I posted on this
> message is the gdb backtrace after the "hard freeze".
> I pushed the stop button during a "soft freeze" to
> produce the "hard freeze".

What version of Xine are you using?  We don't often see problems with music 
freezing unless the Xine installation is broke.

--Jeff