is this a bug, or a reason to upgrade?

[salamandir]

On Friday, September 07, 2018 05:14:10 PM, Myriam Schweingruber, an eminent 
manifestation of divinity, wrote:
> Your version (2.8.0) is relatively old, so is your distribution. Despite
> that, if Amarok has worked before on this installation, there is no reason
> it suddenly stops to work. Did you by change make an update or removed some
> packages? This is usually the most likely culprit. Another idea could be
> some changed access rights (this involves usually running chown and/or
> chmod on the command line) on folders Amarok needs to have access to.

that's the thing... i DID NOT install or remove new packages -- i did upgrade 
a few packages, but not recently (within the couple of weeks preceding 
amarok's decision not to work).

i do that fairly regularly, and it usually doesn't affect other stuff. it 
certainly wasn't recently enough that i can definitely draw the line between 
the upgrades and amarok not working...

for lack of a better term, it just decided not to work one day...

and i DID NOT run chown or chmod on anything on this computer in over a year, 
which is significantly BEFORE anything started happening to amarok.

i would prefer NOT to file a bug report if the only solution would be to 
upgrade to the latest version, because i am already in the process of 
upgrading (starting with backing up my 350GB of music files). the only way i 
would file a bug report, at this point, is if i were fairly sure that it was 
going to get fixed, so as to make it so that others who have the same problem 
would be able to avoid the whole process.

-- 
namaste
salamandir
salamandir at hybridelephant.com

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