amarok crashes immediately upon launch with symbol lookup error

[Felix Crux]

Binary package hint: amarok

Just upgraded to 9.04 alpha 1, attempted to run a fresh install of amarok (I did not have it installed prior to upgrading). The splash screen is momentarily visible, but the app crashes almost immediately. Console output shows:

Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
amarokapp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN3KJS9ObjectImp4markEv

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: amarok 2:1.4.10-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:.
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: amarok
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-generic i686

[sojourner (itsmealso2)]

also seeing the same on amd64bit

[John Stephenson (jmdsdf)]

Until this bug is fixed, roll back kdelibs4c2a to 3.5.10-0ubuntu6 and use synaptic to lock the version.

[Feng Chao (chaofeng)]

As a walkaround, use command

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libkjs.so.1 amarok

Also see: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/300448

[Matt Edwards (mwedwards)]

I can confirm that both of the above workarounds solve this problem. Thanks guys!