Amarok 2.6 frequent crashes

[Matěj Laitl]

On 17. 2. 2013 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> I've been very busy with other things last weeks, but finally I managed to 
> upgrade my gentoo system to kde-4.9.5 and amarok-2.7.0, and the relevant 
> packages compiled with USE="debug" and CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -ggdb" 
> and FEATURES=nostrip to prevent debugging symbols from being removed before
> the final install.
> 
> There is still no improvement, i.e. amarok still crashes after a few
> minutes.  The crash log from
> 
> gdb amarok
> (gdb) run -d --nofork
> 
> shows a SIGSEGV at different locations and different threads each time,
> which  indicates that the SIGSEGV is only a secondary symptom, and the
> actual bug is somewhere else.

Hmm, looks like a memory corruption. I suggest you try to reproduce this on a 
different hardware, as this may well be a symptom of hardware errors.

I know the rest of the system may run fine for you, but one never knows given 
the complexity of all the software -- and you're a single person that gets 
*random* crashes with 2.7 I know of.

You may as well try with different phonon backends, their versions, and 
versions of the underlying libraries. You can also try disabling all the 
plugins and scripts you don't use.

	Matěj