Well, I downloaded the slack package of amarok - installed it, and found out that I needed about 4 other libraries. Bummer. So I got them, and now I'm stuck with this when I try to load amarok.
This is a copy of the last few lines of code before amarok stops trying to load.

QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::statusText( const QString& ) to (null)::shortMessage( const QString& )
QObject::connect: Cannot connect Engine::Base::infoMessage( const QString& ) to (null)::longMessage( const QString& )
amarok: END__: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&) - Took 0.01s
amarokapp: symbol lookup error: amarokapp: undefined symbol: _ZN11KSystemTray9setPixmapERK7QPixmap

I'm guessing the last line has the real error in it. Still, I really don't understand the error. Anyone have an idea?

by the way - I've been loading this in fluxbox; but on my older slack machine (a laptop, but still running slack 10.1!) installed amarok fine, and wihtout getting these funky dependancy programs (libmusicbrainz - libmusicpimp) -Bill

I could be wrong, but do you have an audio engine installed. eg, gstreamer, xine or arts?

snowtigger I believe you're correct. I've read lots of threads about amaroK and the Gstream engine not working correctly or causing lots of errors. I even had problems myself and I ran the gst-register and tried all kinds of suggestions from other users.

TomalakBORK - reconfig amaroK to use a different engine or ensure one is installed. I'm running SuSE 9.2 and the only reliable one I've gotten to work consistently with amaroK is aRTs.

Yeah, AmaroK seems to crash almost as much as we take breaths. Even on the guys web site people complain but to no avail. The admin on the site just insults those complaining even when many others chime in confirming the crashes.

TomalakBORG - where did you get amarok from? And which version is it?

Ugh, ok here's where I am now - I found out that amarok 1.2.3 needs kde 3.4 and I am using 3.3. So I got amarok 1.2.2 as a .tgz (slack package) from sourceforge. Whenever I try to install from source, I get a recursive make error. So I use slack packages. Now I can run it as a user, (amarok 1.2.2) but not root! As root, I get the error:

kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)

Wow. - I have no clue what this means. I tried xhost + localhost to see, but it still won't work. And yes, I had to specify arts as the sound output- and that works. It wouldn't be a problem to only run this as a user, but now I have a problem getting into my NTFS drive with all my music on it as a user. But that's for another topic! -Bill