Amarok SVN crashes on load

Henry de Valence hdevalence at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 00:43:41 UTC 2009


On Thu January 29 2009 4:30:34 am Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009 04:25:34 Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Henry de Valence <hdevalence at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > I assume this is some problem with me since other people don't seem to
> > > have it.
> > >
> > > Basically, Amarok from SVN (as well as Amarok 2 from the SUSE
> > > packagemanager) crashes on load.
> >
> > start with amarok --debug and it might tell us whats going on.
> >
> > The backtrace does look awfully like something is wrong with
> > phonon-xine though. I'm going to forward to the phonon-backends list
> > and see if they have an opinion. Thanks for great backtrace!
> >
> > Thread 5 (Thread 0x4213e950 (LWP 27551)):
> > [KCrash Handler]
> > #5  0x00007feaaa3c81c0 in xine_post_input () from /usr/lib64/libxine.so.1
> > #6  0x00007feaaa635218 in
> > Phonon::Xine::VolumeFaderEffectXT::createInstance (this=0x9dd230) at
> > /home/hdevalence/devel/src/trunk/kdesupport/phonon/xine/volumefadereffect
> >.c pp:123
>
> This looks like the crash you get if you have too many xine plugins
> installed (e.g. from different installed libxine versions). libxine then
> decides to ignore the compiled in volume fader plugin.
>
> Just clean up your system and it should work again.

Yep, upgrading xine & friends worked.

Thanks!

Henry de Valence



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