Amarok shuts down hal

[Tim]

I guess this is an amrok bug, though I'm not really sure. The symtoms are as follows:
I have my music stored on a usb drive (WD MyBook) and use Amarok to manage my music in Gnome. This all works fine until I quit Amarok, which causes my usb drive to spin up for a second, then the icon for my harddrive disappears from the desktop, though oddly any icons for CDs or other physical drives remain. If I look in /media the external drive is no longer listed. If I restart hal (sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart) the device shows up again. So far no data corruption has occured, and the device appears to think that it is still connected, even after its icon disappears (the lights stay on). My guess is that Amarok and the kde support services it brings with it think that the computer is shutting down and this causes one of the components to shut hal down. Either that or something bad happens and hal crashes. dmesg gives me nothing. If I start amarok from the command line I get the following:
Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?
tim@timdesktop:~$ QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::activePartChanged( KParts::Part * ) to KHTMLPart::slotActiveFrameChanged( KParts::Part * )
DCOP aborting call from 'kded' to 'klauncher'
kded: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Cannot talk to klauncher

This is on Gutsy with KDE 3.5.8 and amaroK 1.4.7. I think everything is up to date.

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

Please try to reproduce in hardy with Amarok 1.4.8.
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