Error - amaroK

[Jeremy LaCroix]

Amarok was working fine for my wife and I (we both upgraded from Hoary to Breezy
via apt-get) and even after the upgrade it was working fine for quite a while.
However, Amarok was updated recently on my machine via dist-upgrade, and it no
longer works. I get this message:
---
amaroK could not find any sound-engine plugins. amaroK is now updating the KDE
configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then restart amaroK.
If this does not help, it is likely that amaroK is installed under the wrong
prefix, please fix your installation using:
$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
$ su -c "make uninstall"
$ ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
$ kbuildsycoca
$ amarok
More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us
at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
---
Then it crashes.

When mine stopped working, my wife's was still working but she didn't do her
dist-upgrade yet that day. When she did, it stopped working and is giving her
the same error also. We aren't able to get into Amarok to change the engine, so
I don't know what engine ours are using. The program is completely broken for us.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Hi Jeremy

please, can you try to move all amarok configurations from ~/.kde to a backup
directory.

Please check as well, if you have amarok-gstreamer or amarok-xine installed.

We have two issues here to check:

1. Did you or your wife used gstreamer alsaink with amarok?
2. Are you using sqlite for your collection?

Both issues can break amarok when upgrading from 1.2.x to 1.3.1.

The first, cause 1.3.1 doesn't install an alsaink for gstreamer anymore (removed
by upstream, so ossink is the default now, but your local settings can overwrite
this)
The second, there is a new sqlite engine available, and amarok-1.3.1 is compiled
against.

Please check this out, and report here again. Most of the time, this workaround
explained above helps to avoid that amarok is crashing.

Thx,

\sh

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't know the answers to the amarok-xine question, but backing up her config
files did fix the problem. Thanks!

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

problem solved, everybody is happy :)

Thx Jeremy for the report :)