Amarok Fails to Start, Tmp Directory is a Text File

[Kevin Oberle]

Binary package hint: amarok

I'm running gutsy with all the latest updates and back ports enabled. On Jan 11/08 I noticed amarok refused to start. I hadn't used it for a few days before that so I'm not sure exactly when or how this happened. But when I tried to run it, I would see the splash and then nothing, and nothing was running in the system monitor either.

Running from terminal produced this:

kevin@Kevin-Laptop:~$ amarok
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
kbuildsycoca running...
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: KTempFile: Error trying to create /home/kevin/.kde/tmp-Kevin-Laptop/kbuildsycocaXXXXXX.tmp: Not a directory
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x818c8c0 ): 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 = 0x818c8c0 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
        StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
amarok: WARNING: KTempFile: Error trying to create /home/kevin/.kde/tmp-Kevin-Laptop/gradientXXXXXX.png: Not a directory
amarok: WARNING: KTempFile: Error trying to create /home/kevin/.kde/tmp-Kevin-Laptop/amarokXXXXXX.tmp: Not a directory

I went under the ./kde directory and noticed that tmp-Kevin-Laptop existed as a plain text file and not a directory. I deleted it and made a directory and that fixed my problem. Amarok now loads fine.

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

Closing as it is fixed.