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Miquel Coll (miquel6) wrote : Re: [Bug 389681] Re: Amarok keeps updating forever -- amarok folder owned by root instead of user

Hi!
I do think the problem is in ~/.kde grants.
I installed Amarok using "sudo apt-get..." so that's the root
privileges in ~/.kde (Amarok is the first kde application I've used
before I've installed Gnome Karmik)
So, as Andrew said, I think it's an installation/packaging issue.

regards
miquel

2010/1/8 KNT <email address hidden>:
> I have the 'eternal loop' problem also when I've tried to associate
> qcomicbook with cbr files via context menu.
>
> --
> Amarok keeps updating forever -- amarok folder owned by root instead of user
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389681
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> Status in The Amarok Music Player: Unknown
> Status in “amarok” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: amarok
>
> I've upgraded the amarok package in Karmic today and it kept "Updating system configuration." forever (more than 1 hour at least).
>
> I've canceled it and it said:
>
> Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
> $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
> $ su -c "make uninstall"
> $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
> $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
> $ amarok
> More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
>
> Maybe some problem with a plugin or script I've installed? (but nothing changed since the last upgrade).
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Jun 19 23:18:45 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: amarok 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
> SourcePackage: amarok
> Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic i686
>
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