Amarok 1.4.6 wont start

the-yikes · 09-05-2007, 05:26 AM

Hi all!
i recently tried to upgrade Amarok, i uninstalled the previous version i had, which was working fine. After the update amarok refused to start so removed it and reinstalled the previous version.

Now when i try to start Amarok i get the following error

Quote:

Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
amarokapp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN9KLineEdit17mouseReleaseEventEP11QMouseEvent

I'm completely stumped? the error makes no sense to me good bad or indifferent.

I only upgraded becuase i bought a new philips mp3 player and i was going to try syncing it with amarok.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

The Yikes

tramni1980 · 09-05-2007, 05:31 AM

Try removing the folder ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok

the-yikes · 09-05-2007, 05:35 AM

Tried it, no joy! oh man this is really annoying!

Cheers for the tip though, much appreciated!

The Yikes

adriv · 09-05-2007, 06:14 AM

A similar error ( + solution) is posted here. It's on FC5, but maybe it's of interest to you too.

the-yikes · 09-05-2007, 06:27 AM

Cheers for that i'm downloading kdebase as i'm typing this! I'll keep ya posted. Fingers Crossed!

Thanks a million

The Yikes

dracolich · 09-05-2007, 04:46 PM

Do you possibly have two amarok or amarokapp binaries installed - the first of which is looking in the wrong place for the libs?

the-yikes · 09-06-2007, 06:15 AM

Well i downloaded the kdebase but still no joy, i then removed all amarok .tgz packages and installed from source and hey presto it's working!

I'm delighted it works now but i'm curious as to why the slack packs returned an error?

Anyone have any insights?

Thanks all for the tips, they were greatly appreciated!

Thanks

The Yikes

dracolich · 09-06-2007, 08:17 AM

Quote:

...i then removed all amarok .tgz packages...

Did you have more than one installed at the same time? That would lead back to my previous question. When you have multiple versions of a program installed, whichever is reached first by following your user's $PATH, is the one that gets executed. Then, if the different versions use the same locations for libs and other shared files you'll get version incompatibilities.

That's my guess about what happened. Glad you got it working, though.

glarbl_blarbl · 10-25-2007, 05:33 PM

I ran into the same problem, and sure enough I had the old version still installed... Unfortunately the problem persists after I unintstall 1.4.5 .

I guess I'll have to install from source.

rg3 · 10-25-2007, 07:12 PM

Were those amarok packages downloaded from linuxpackages.net, by a chance?

glarbl_blarbl · 10-26-2007, 04:17 AM

1.4.6 was, 1.4.5 was upgraded from 1.4.3 via swaret. I downloaded the current stable source, but haven't compiled it yet. I may reconsider bothering with it, since the problem was on my laptop and 1.4.7 is already installed on my desktop rig (plus my music collection lives on an nfs share which would make it somewhat useless if I roam with it, also I only needed 1.4.6 so amarok would play nicely with my new hand-me-down iPod).