KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify

[Ron Strenger]

During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify. Do you
want to try again or disable aRts sound output?
If you choose to disable aRts output now, you can re-enable it later or select
an alternate sound player in the System Notifications control panel.

### I was running KolourPaint and then tried closing it without saving after
scribbling in it and this prompt above in the process.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Do you still have this problem in breezy final?

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Does this still happen with dapper? If you can reproduce it, try obtaining a backtrace following the instructions here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash Thanks.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I have the same problem here with Feisty Beta (it happenned before, but I didn't file a bug) when starting amarok for the first time. Then it propose me to disable arts output, and if I agree it seems ok afterwards.

[Sir Nikon (omnineko)]

I saw this thread earlier today while trying to figure out why this KNotify window kept popping up. I couldn't get it to reproduce itself because it seemed totally random. I noticed that it popped up after clicking the Close icon in the top right corner of the window (clicking it to close the window and leave Amarok in the tray). It happens every time I click that and it also seems to happen at random.

[libertyernie (libertyernie)]

Workaround: Tell it to disable arts and check the "don't ask again" box. Still seems to work fine on Ubuntu feisty.

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

Do you still have this problem with gutsy?

[notman (notman05)]

I've still experienced it in Gutsy... quite often actually. It's typically whenever I get a messagebox, like 'Do you want to save before closing?' in kMyMoney or when Evolution wants to tell me that I have a new message.

[schumifer (schumifer2121)]

Got here searching for a solution to the same problem. I had no sound and i got the message about knotifier each time i control+alt+backspaced.
Finally i reboot later it was all back to normal. At the time i acquired the problem i was merely browsing...... During, the issue i had no sound , in any application....

[schumifer (schumifer2121)]

Got here searching for a solution to the same problem. I had no sound and i got the message about knotifier each time i control+alt+backspaced.
Finally i reboot later it was all back to normal. At the time i acquired the problem i was merely browsing...... During, the issue i had no sound , in any application....gutsy amd64 kubuntu

[hornetster (hornetster)]

Have just installed 8.04 (32bit?) on Core2Duo and have been getting this error intermittently. Not sure what is causing it. Will try and take note next time around. Sound still seems fine.

[Revup (revups)]

I'm getting this problem in 8.10 Intrepid. the exact same report. However, I have no idea where the "system notifications panel" is.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Closing because:
-A proper backtrace was never made.
-The most likely cause of the crash was aRts, which is unmaintained upstream.

Any further knotify crashes are probably unrelated to this one and should get their own reports, along with a backtrace from a system with kdelibs5-dbg installed. Thank you.