On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 16:47, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to send this as bug report, but as on trying to get diagnostic > information it suddenly worked again, I just write a mail to here for now: > > > I had this before, although it has been quite some time. Instead of just > deleting the whole database and starting from scratch without > understanding what has happened, I now want to understand whats going on > here. > > On my Amarok machine, a ThinkPad T23, with Debian Wheezy/Sid, I just > upgraded from KDE SC 4.6.5 to 4.7.4. Then I rebooted and started Amarok > again. > > It played some tracks and then music stopped. As I looked Amarok was > stopped. I thought it might have crashed. > > I started it again: > > - collection was empty, except for Amarok theme Art of Nations > - playlist was empty > > > I tried to update the collection database. Then I went to > Settings/Collection and told it to scan the collection again. > > Nothing. > > > Thats it. What has happened? > > IMHO thats absolutely a no-go. I just removed Pulseaudio from that machine > some weeks ago, cause when I resume this machine I want it to play audio - > instead of it spilling usb_set_interface_failed onto kernel log or not > initializing all channels properly or doing audio stuttering where it > doesn´t without and so on, but thats a different rant. > > I expect my Amarok machine to play when I resume it. Just like when I > switch on my CD player. And thats it. No discussion. > > > Well some diagnostics: > > martin@deepdance:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(amarok|libqtgui4|kde- > runtime)" > amarok/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1 > amarok-common/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1 > amarok-utils/wheezy uptodate 2.5.0-1 > kde-runtime/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2 > kde-runtime-data/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2 > libqtgui4/wheezy uptodate 4:4.7.4-2 > > > martin@deepdance:share/apps/amarok> ls -lh collection.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 6,3M Mai 13 2009 collection.db > > martin@deepdance:share/apps/amarok> ls -l mysqle > insgesamt 0 > drwx------ 1 martin martin 2040 Okt 9 14:09 amarok > drwx------ 1 martin martin 12 Mai 13 2009 mysql > > amarok database contains lots of *.frm, *.MYD and *.MYI files. > > martin@deepdance:share/apps/amarok> find -iname "*lock*" | grep -v moods > martin@deepdance:share/apps/amarok#1> > > > Hmmm, now I cleaned .xsession-errors with truncate -s0 and started > > amarok --debug > > But then at least the collection is there again. > > Playlist is still gone. > > Well, sorry, it seems thats it with diagnostic information. Next time I > copy .xsession-errors aside before truncating it to get just the new stuff > in it. > > > > I think that recovery after a Amarok crash or whyever Amarok stopped > played and was stopped then, should be automatic in all cases. Well > ideally Amarok wouldn´t crash. > > Maybe the issue is, that after a full rescan the collection view is not > updated and one has to stop and start Amarok to get it updated. > > But then a full rescan shouldn´t be necessary. The recovery should be > automatic IMHO. > > > Should it happen again, I think I will backup > > ~/.kde/share/apps/Amarok > ~/.kde/share/config/amarok* > > to a safe place before trying any restauration. > > Ciao, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 > _______________________________________________ > Amarok mailing list > Amarok@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
The playlist is saved to $KDEHOME/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf on exit. Is it possible that you have a crash on exit that prevents it from being written? Or perhaps a file permission problem? _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
