Amarok 2.2.0 broken?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 23:01:10 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 18:41 -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 10/10/2009 05:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 22:27 +0200, Eike Hein wrote:
> >> On 10/10/2009 07:01 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>> As I said in earlier in the thread, and in my bug report, this didn't
> >>> work for me.
> >>
> >> Are you sure you had both deleted at the same time? It
> >> seemed that you first tried deleting the one in share,
> >> and then later the one in config, with a start inbe-
> >> tween that then would have created a new folder struc-
> >> ture in share from a perhaps wonky config file in con-
> >> fig.
> >
> > This is what I did, step by step:
> >
> > $ rpm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok ~/.kde/share/config/amarok*
> > Logout
> > Login
> > Amarok autostarts
> > Amarok shows config dialogue to scan for music
> > I tick the appropriate box and hit Apply.
> > I wait for the scan to finish.
> > No Browser elements are selectable.
> 
> No need to logout. Just stop/exit/kill amarok and then:
> 
> 
> rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok ~/.kde/share/config/amarok*

I did it both ways. No difference.

> Then start amarok again. I also take it that rpm -fr above was just a 
> typo. :-)

Er, yes :-) Happens surprisingly often. Luckily it hasn't bitten me so
far.

poc




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