Amarok crashes when "populating playlist"

[J Nash]

I've found this problem reported as bug #58617
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/58617

I installed libxine-extracodecs as suggested there and amarok is
running great now.

On 6/7/07, J Nash <jnash2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm using Feisty Fawn and installed Amarok.
> When I click on some music it goes on to "populating playlist" and gets
> stuck there. I can still can use Amarok but the populating stays for
> ever. After a while it gets "black and white". I suppose it's a
> feature of Ubuntu when apps are not responding.
> Sometimes I get a crash from KNotify.
> I suspect it's something to do with mp3 support as one time before it
> crashed, it showed a little window saying that I hadn't that
> installed.
> Below follows the output of starting it from the console and the
> KNotify backtrace.
> Thanks.
>
> $ amarok
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>   Major opcode:  147
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>   Major opcode:  147
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
> Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary!
> Use amarokapp.
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>   Major opcode:  147
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>   Major opcode:  147
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8096918
> ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
> QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8096918
> ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
> QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to
> layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
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> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
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> [KCrash handler]
> #6  0xb669ea3b in KAudioManagerPlay::KAudioManagerPlay ()
>    from /usr/lib/libartskde.so.1
> #7  0xb675bd03 in KNotify::restartedArtsd () from /usr/lib/kde3/knotify.so
> #8  0xb675c01d in KNotify::KNotify () from /usr/lib/kde3/knotify.so
> #9  0xb675c85a in kdemain () from /usr/lib/kde3/knotify.so
> #10 0x0804e6bf in ?? ()
> #11 0x00000001 in ?? ()
> #12 0x0807e740 in ?? ()
> #13 0x00000001 in ?? ()
> #14 0x00000000 in ?? ()
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