Bug 135668

Summary:	Amarkok keeps crashing
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Component:	KDE	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kde-maintainers
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Stefan Hundhammer 2005-11-28 14:14:03 UTC

The stock 10.0 amarok is very unstable: It plays music on average no longer than about 10-20 minutes, then it crashes (segfault) or the UI freezes.

Building my own RPM with a newer version amarok-1.3.5 fixed the problem for me.

dmueller@suse.de is convinced the problem is due to threads in the 10.0 amarok code and a multiprocessor machine (I have a P4 with hyperthreading) - a known amarok problem. He thinks it works for me only because in the spec file I had used amarok is built without thread support.

Anyway, since a lot of users out there are using P4-HT systems I strongly suggest to ship an updated version (with thread support disabled) as a YOU update. Amarok as it comes with 10.0 is pretty unusable for P4-HT users.

Comment 1 Klaus Singvogel 2005-11-28 14:17:29 UTC

I can confirm this.

When I started amarok the third time (or so) after installation, it crashes with this error message (during startup)
kio (Scheduler): FATAL: BUG! _ScheduleJob(): No extraJobData for job!

After I installed above mentioned version, it runs now without any problems.

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-11-30 13:52:18 UTC

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115900 says it's fixed in 1.3.6 - I think we should do a YOU update even if it's a newer version it seems way less buggy.

Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2005-11-30 14:37:49 UTC

Update approved, swampid is:  	 Maintenance-Tracker-3056

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2005-11-30 14:40:11 UTC

Dirk, please see what of the other amarok bugs you can fix with that.

Comment 5 Anja Stock 2006-01-31 12:24:23 UTC

Dirk, what is the status here?

Comment 6 Dirk Mueller 2006-01-31 13:07:10 UTC

still working on fixing the x86_64 / helix wrapper issue, which we want to ship with this update.

Comment 7 Dirk Mueller 2006-02-09 17:11:31 UTC

ok, mostly sorted out, only one strange memleak to go.

Comment 8 Dirk Mueller 2006-03-14 18:20:15 UTC

submitted

Comment 9 Anja Stock 2006-03-20 12:43:16 UTC

released

Comment 10 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-05-17 14:12:51 UTC

The problem seems to be back with amarok-1.3.8 from 10.1-i386. Gathering more information.

Comment 11 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-05-17 14:14:07 UTC

see also bug #115612

Comment 12 Dirk Mueller 2006-05-17 14:51:48 UTC

This must be a different cause, please use bug 176366 for reporting.