Bug 15838

Summary:	amarok analyzer plugin kills amarok, is enabled automatically by gstreamer backend
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Juan Luis Baptiste <juan.baptiste>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210, mageia, ottoleipala1
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO, MGA4TOO
Source RPM:	amarok-2.8.0-5.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2015-05-04 01:24:35 CEST

While trying to reproduce Bug 9926 in Mageia 4 and Cauldron VMs, switching to the Gstreamer Phonon backend made Amarok unusable.  If I'd click the system tray icon, it would crash while trying to show the Amarok UI.  drkonqi would also fail to launch, making it impossible to get any useful debugging info.

This is reproducible in this VM, although it wasn't on a Cauldron machine at work.  I traced the change in the Amarok settings that causes the crash to this:
--- good/.kde4/share/config/amarok_homerc       2015-05-03 18:57:09.000000000 -0400
+++ bad/.kde4/share/config/amarok_homerc        2015-05-03 18:59:54.000000000 -0400
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ ForegroundVisited[$d]
 
 [Containment 0]
 firstShowingApplet=0
-plugins=currenttrack,lyrics,wikipedia
+plugins=currenttrack,analyzer,lyrics,wikipedia
 
 [Directories-default]
 prefixes[$d]


With the analyzer plugin enabled, the crash happens no matter which backend you're using.  Removing that from the config allows it to work fine again, with either backend.  Switching back to the VLC backend does not cause it to be added to the config.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

David Walser 2015-05-04 01:24:56 CEST

CC: (none) => lmenut, mageia
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA4TOO

Comment 1 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-05-04 08:49:37 CEST

fixed on svn

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 2 David Walser 2015-05-04 12:56:25 CEST

Fix not pushed yet, Mageia 4 also affected.  Reopening.

Resolution: FIXED => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED

Comment 3 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-05-04 13:28:03 CEST

i fix for mga4 today

Comment 4 David Walser 2015-05-04 22:43:06 CEST

I added the same patch on Mageia 4 as is in Cauldron, and unfortunately, it doesn't fix it.  Switching to gstreamer still adds analyzer to the config and kills Amarok.

Comment 5 Otto Leipälä 2015-05-05 08:44:13 CEST

Seems to be noticed in upstream too.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320992

CC: (none) => ozkyster

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-05 09:11:04 CEST

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-31 21:39:40 CEST

Whiteboard: MGA4TOO => MGA4TOO MGA5TOO

Comment 6 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-06-01 07:14:47 CEST

this is fixed in mga5

Whiteboard: MGA4TOO MGA5TOO => MGA4TOO

Comment 7 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-01 09:08:39 CEST

(In reply to Nicolas Lécureuil from comment #6)
> this is fixed in mga5

Setting version accordingly then.

Version: Cauldron => 4
Whiteboard: MGA4TOO => (none)

Comment 8 David Walser 2015-06-01 12:14:51 CEST

This was never actually fixed anywhere.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO, MGA4TOO
Version: 4 => Cauldron

Luc Menut 2016-08-25 16:42:54 CEST

CC: lmenut => (none)

Comment 9 David GEIGER 2020-05-02 09:23:25 CEST

Closing of this bug as old!

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210