[Hardy] Amarok takes several seconds to give me the control after starts

[Alejandro Díaz-Caro]

Binary package hint: amarok

When amarok starts, it takes several seconds to give me the control, I cannot do anything with it before.

The following is the output when I start amarok:

Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x9375a0 ): 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 = 0x9375a0 ): 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&)

After that, it takes several seconds (arround 15 sec) to give me the control.

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I am using Kubuntu 8.04 amd64 (KDE3) updated from Gutsy

janus@ernestina:~$ apt-cache policy amarok
amarok:
  Instalados: 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1
  Candidato: 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1 0
        500 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ftp.usf.edu hardy/main Packages

janus@ernestina:~$ apt-cache policy amarok-xine
amarok-xine:
  Instalados: 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1
  Candidato: 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3+medibuntu1 0
        500 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ftp.usf.edu hardy/main Packages

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you on this bug, Alejandro :(

Amarok gives a lot of debug output when it starts up, and it looks like that's what you're seeing here. I'm not an expert, but nothing looks _too_ out of the ordinary on that one. What's more illuminating is that you're running a version of Amarok from the medibuntu archives. Can you please report back if this is still an issue with the Ubuntu archives? How about the 9.04 Jaunty version too?

[Alejandro Díaz-Caro (janus)]

I am so sorry, but I cannot try any more, because from the time when I
reported this bug to now, I have changed from distro and laptop
several times. Right now I have Debian/PPC in a PowerBook G4, with
amarok 2.1.1, and I have not problem with it.
Cheers and thanks for answer. Maybe we should close this bug.

[Alejandro Díaz-Caro (janus)]

I am so sorry, but I cannot try any more, because from the time when I reported this bug to now, I have changed from distro and laptop several times. Right now I have Debian/PPC in a PowerBook G4, with amarok 2.1.1, and I don't have any problem with it.
Cheers and thanks for answer. Should we close this report now?

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

This is in fact solved in Amarok 2.1.1