Amarok will not load

[roj]

Have been running Kubuntu 10.10 for ~10 weeks and I think Amarok was included in the initial set of packages but never used it until now and it would not open up. It shows as loading in the task bar for ~5 secs' and then just disappears. I have since removed the package and then downloaded anew but the same problem prevails. Any thoughts and advice please? Also I would be interested to hear of other software recommendations for playing/ripping/cataloging music CDs, etc? Thanks in advance to any and all responders.

[Rog131]

Re: Amarok will not load

Something to try / Rule of Thumb

When you get a mysterious error/no start/no audio/no video with the gui, use the cli.
With the cli you usually get a full error message and could do a net search with the error message.

If you start the VLC/MPlayer/Kaffeine/Amarok/Whatever in the konsole there should be lot of information what is going on.

Konsole:

amarok

The konsole at here:

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QStr ing,QString,QString)
amarok(2598)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
etc...
QMap()
amarok: ************************************************** ********************************************
amarok: ** AMAROK WAS STARTED IN NORMAL MODE. IF YOU WANT TO SEE DEBUGGING INFORMATION, PLEASE USE: **
amarok: ** amarok --debug **
amarok: ************************************************** ********************************************

Players

> Package: amarok:

Similar packages:

* exaile
* minirok
* clementine
* guayadeque
* exaile-plugin-ipod
* juk
* libvisual0.2
* libvisual-0.4-0
* exaile-plugin-contextinfo
* qmmp

> Kubuntu Forums (Audio/Video):

>> Topic: Media Players
>> Topic: Pana and Clementine

[jeremy1701]

Re: Amarok will not load

Whenever Amarok won't load for me, it's usually something wrong with the configuration file. A simple test to see if this is the case is to rename your .kde/share/config/amarokrc file to amarokrc.bak, then try to start Amarok.

[roj]

Re: Amarok will not load

Sorry jeremy1701 but that didn't resolve the problem either. Amarok still commences to load (taskbar indication) and then just gives up and disappears.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Amarok will not load

Did you try Rog131's plan and run it from the CLI?

[roj]

Re: Amarok will not load

Yes I did try Rog131 recommendation by using CLI and it returns "Amarok is already running!" But then the Amarok window/panel suddenly appears. Very strange.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Amarok will not load

Weird that Amarok is already running. You can try this command:

killall amarok

but I've had trouble with that working sometimes. You'll need to get the Process ID, PID, for the running Amarok processes (there are sometimes more than one). To do that, use this command:

ps aux | grep amarok

Note the PID for each running process and use the following command for each, substituting [PID] for the PID that you found using the command above:

kill -9 [PID]

Once you've entered each [PID], use the command again to make sure there are no more Amarok processes running. (Note: There will always be one running process, the one from the grep command you just issued!).

After that, try starting Amarok from the CLI again.