Comment 36 for bug 389681

Hi, though I'm aware that I am Debian user writing in an Ubuntu bugtracker, I can confirm this problem here on my (slightly older) Debian as well.

You've saved my life with those helpful posts! In case you thought this is an ancient thread and this problem does no longer occur, don't shoot too quick.
Since Amarok is deeply rooted into the KDE base system, you can bet your life on it that on *my* Debian it would take me a FULL base system upgrade (including libc/libstdc++ and all that) to run 2.6.
This is why I wanted to stick to the 2.4.1 backport provided for Squeeze ( amarok_2.4.1-1~bpo60+1_i386.deb )

I just don't get why kbuildsycoca4 is not properly run from within Amarok at first run. This definitely feels like a bug.

- Running kbuildsycoca4 manually ...
- Checking ownership on .kde/share/config/*amarok* (the bug is that the three *rc files [amarok_appletsrc | amarok_homerc | amarokrc] are chowned root by default, there is no need to waste time in recursively chown'ing the whole .kde tree!)

fixes this problem.
I could make a wild guess that the problem does no longer occur on 2.6, but not everyone can install 2.6 without lots of effort (see above).