On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 18:07, Brian Blater <brb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Brian Blater <brb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myr...@kde.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 17:14, Brian Blater <brb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> <snip> >>> >>> Please dismiss point 3. that is totally the wrong way and not related. >>> >>> For the rest: these are all internet services, are you behind a proxy? >>> Apparently no information can be retrieved, so something is wrong with >>> your internet connection, not with Amarok. >>> >>> >>> Regards, Myriam >> >> I am not behind a proxy and the internet is working fine. I am able to >> access http://en.wikipedia.org just fine from my machine. >> >> What other troubleshooting can be done to find where the connections >> are failing then? >> >> Brian >> > > In doing some testing I ran amarok in debug mode. I then went to see > what was reported when opening a track. I got the following: > > amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Adding interactive cover fetch for: 'Enema of > the State' from Google" > amarok: BEGIN: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr, > const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*) > amarok: [CoverFetcher] Queueing automatic cover fetch for: "Enema of > the State" > QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap > QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap > amarok: END__: CoverFoundDialog::CoverFoundDialog(CoverFetchUnit::Ptr, > const CoverFetch::Metadata&, QWidget*) [Took: 0.059s] > amarok: [CoverFetcher] "Queueing cover fetch query: 'Enema of the > State Blink 182' (page 0)" > amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the > State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider: > http://ws.audioscrobbler.com]"; > QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative > sizes (117,-1) are not possible > amarok: [CoverFetcher] Finished with errors for album "Enema of the > State" "[There was an error communicating with cover provider: > http://images.google.com]"; > QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Media Sources dock/BrowserDock) Negative > sizes (117,-1) are not possible > > Yet on the same machine I can browse to http://ws.audioscrobbler.com > (redirects to last.fm/api) and http://images.google.com > > So, this appears more than just "something must be wrong with my > internet connection" as I can get to the web page that it is > attempting to get to. > > Any suggestions as to what might fix this?
Instead of running Amarok from a user PPA, how about using the version from the official Kubuntu backports-PPA? See also http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-243-berlin-released It might be a problem with the package you are using. Regards,Myriam -- Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
