Have tried running amarok with a new home directory for the user directly on the root partition and it worked then. Checked the permissions and they are the same with /home mounted or without /home mounted. However no .kde directory is created when I launch amarok with /home mounted as an ext3 partition but it is created when it is written directly to my root partition. Very strange. I copied the .kde directory onto the partition however this did not make any difference.
Have tried running amarok with a new home directory for the user directly on the root partition and it worked then. Checked the permissions and they are the same with /home mounted or without /home mounted. However no .kde directory is created when I launch amarok with /home mounted as an ext3 partition but it is created when it is written directly to my root partition. Very strange. I copied the .kde directory onto the partition however this did not make any difference.