Constant crashes

[Justin Brown]

Thanks Leo. My file names were slightly different, so I removed
~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and ~/.kde/share/config/amarok-appletsrc. It's
working great. Thanks again.

Regards,
Justin Brown


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Justin Brown <justin.brown1.1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have managed to kill my Amarok installation. I was having some trouble
> > with one of the lyrics widgets, so I switched to the other one (I can't
> > remember the name). Amarok immediately crashed, and whenever I try to
> start
> > it, I see the splash screen then the KDE crash handler. Basically, I
> can't
> > open Amarok and switch back to the original lyrics widget. I tried
> removing
> > .kde/share/apps/amarok/, but that didn't help. How can I reset Amarok to
> the
> > default state/widgets/etc.? I have a backup of my of my library DB
> (although
> > restoring it doesn't help).
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> Do you have  b acktrace? A window should pop up after Amarok crashes
> that shows you more information about the crash, including a
> copy-and-pastable backtrace.
>
> In any case, you have deleted amarok's data files in
> ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok but not it's config files, which are in
> ~/.kde4/share/config. So you can delete the following:
>
> ~/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc - general amarok settings
> ~/.kde4/share/config/amarok_homerc - which applets to load when opening
> amarok
>
> leo
>
>
> --
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