Amarok gone amuck

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi John,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 00:16, John Mead <yodo5r at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi Folks  maybe you can help me with my problem. Yesterday I  installed
> Amerok 2.4.. and all went fine, it did a serach, found my library and
> off we went.
>
> This morning, however the whole thing  was pooched. Amarok refuses to
> compile  music or playlists from my music library, if I point it to my
> Music sources,say a CD or my on HD, it will hang, the whole monitor goes
> black and I am into the "sign in" screen.." that you get on boot up,
> howz that for weird.
> I have Ubuntu 10.10  64 bit and 32 bit  versions, Amarok behaves exactly
> the same in both.
> I tried Clementine, works like a charm.
> I have a HD Radeon 4870 GFX card that has HDMI audio on it, but that is
> disabled. ALL other audio and visual applications on this OS work fine,
> thats, Banshee, RhythmBox, Movieplayer, Moovida, Miro,   etc , etc.
>
> The graphic interface also doesn't show any playlists from Magantune as
> you would see in Clementine or RhythmBox, I have been doing a "debug
> sequence"..here is a copy of it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers, JRM
>
>
> amarok:     [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform escape() on
> uninitialized MySQL
> amarok:     [ERROR__] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
> amarok:     [ERROR__] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
> amarok:     [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] Tried to perform escape() on
> uninitialized MySQL

As you can see from this line your MySQL database is not starting.
This can be related to MySQL updates (e.g. the 5.5.8 version causes
problems and needs to be patched by the distributions). Do you use an
internal MySQLe (which is default) or did you configure an external
database server? Please check your settings and permissions there.


Regards, Myriam.

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