amarok crashes with segmentation fault

[IndustryShocker]

Kubuntu 11.10x64

amarok 2:2.4.3-1ubuntu2

it should start normal

segmentation fault (i think its a problem with dbus)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: amarok 2:2.4.3-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 20 14:53:14 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: amarok
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-16 (3 days ago)

[IndustryShocker (guernon)]

robert@whitesands:~$ amarok
KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
========== Starting Statistics Script ==========
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SHOW TABLES
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="ignore_unrated"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="reverse_results"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="exclude_enabled"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="min_tracks_per_album"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="results_limit"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="weight_rating"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="weight_score"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="weight_length"
[RATING_STATISTICS] [SQL] SELECT value FROM rating_statistics_config WHERE name="weight_playcount"
========== Finished Statistics Script ==========
unnamed app(2580): Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

robert@whitesands:~$ KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/robert/.kde/socket-whitesands/kdeinit4__0
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 34 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 52 and type 'Read', disabling...

[IndustryShocker (guernon)]

problem gets fixed if i delete the /.kde/share/apps/amarok folder

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Probably your database got corrupted, unless you backed up the folder before removing it there is little one can do now :S

[Ron O (ronouel)]

"problem gets fixed if i delete the /.kde/share/apps/amarok folder"

THANKS!! Worked like a charm for fixing startup segmentation faults on Ubuntu 12.04-64 bit when all else failed.

11/1/2012 The more things change, the more they stay the same.