Amarok 2.2.2 system configuration / and does not find collection backend ("SOLVED")

[Alan Ezust]

I had a strange problem where I tried to uninstall a version of amarok
I built from GIT and install the current amarok from debian testing.
Then I got that dreaded  error message about collection plugins
missing.

I could not figure out how to get rid of the message except by git
pull to the current master and building again from source.
Then I tried running it. I got that dreaded message *again* about
collection plugins missing.

it told me to run kbuildsycoca --nonincremental but I forgot to do it
and just ran amarok again.
Second time running it, it worked!

And further, I should say, today's amarok 2.4-git is very nice, many
other annoying bugs are gone!


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 15 Januar 2010 schrieb Mark Kretschmann:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Martin Steigerwald
>>
>> <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>> > Am Freitag 15 Januar 2010 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
>> >> On 01/15/2010 05:56 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> >> > A kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental *after* installing Amarok 2.2.2
>> >> > then did the trick. The one I ran before upgrading Amarok did not.
>> >>
>> >> Well, right. Because the plugin versions changed. Running a
>> >>  kbuildsycoca with the old plugin versions installed isn't going to
>> >>  update the cache with the new plugin version information...
>> >>
>> >> > IMHO manually this shouldn't be necessary.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure when it's supposed to kick off manually or not. I do
>> >> believe it's run on login, so a logout/in should probably have fixed
>> >>  it.
>> >>
>> >> I know on Gentoo at least they tried for a while to run
>> >> kbuildsycoca4 after ebuild installation, but I guess it requires a
>> >> running X server for some reason so they aborted that. (Maybe *that*
>> >> would be something good to ask about in an upstream bug report.)
>> >
>> > Hmmm, I am not so sure it does. At least it runs via SSH from my T42
>> > to my T23 without DISPLAY=:0.
>> >
>> > So it would be a good idea if the package post-install runs
>> > kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental? But how to reliably detect for which
>> > users? Well if its run after a login it would need to run it for each
>> > logged in KDE user.
>>
>> Normally, this happens automatically. Not sure what went wrong there
>> on your system.
>
> Ok, thanks for information. I probably could reproduce it as long as
> rdiff-backup carries Amarok 2.2.1 files, but as long as it just happened
> for one user and one machine its probably not worth the effort. Tell me
> whether you would be interested in that.
>
> Otherwise let's see how it goes with Amarok 2.2.3 then. ;-)
>
> Amarok 2.2.2 is working fine so far. Thanks for the update ;).
>
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