Yesterday I live-updated my system from 13.1 to 13.2, following the method on SDB. I then added Packman and the KDE multimedia packages, as per the Multimedia Guide.
The only problem I now have with my new system is that Amarok crashes on startup. Erro message: segmentation fault. It happens with all users and with all versions of Amarok I could find rpms for.
I know there was bug related to Amarok and 13.2, but a fresh install on my new laptop does not show any problem with Amarok.
Yes, I’d thought of package consistency. As you can see, that’s the repo I’m using
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KCrash: Application ‘amarok’ crashing…KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
KCrash: Connect sock_file=/home/dedalus/.kde4/socket-darkstar/kdeinit4__0
unnamed app(2687): Communication problem with “amarok” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply” : " “Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)” "
The main repos are frozen after the release and are not modified any more.
Also, there’s nothing wrong with phonon-backend-vlc in the official repo.
But, it is built against vlc 2.1.5 (that is also in the official repo), and doesn’t work with 2.2.x.
If you installed vlc 2.1.5 from the official repos it would work, but then you wouldn’t be able to install the additional codecs…
The best thing would be IMHO, that Packman would offer phonon-backend-vlc as well, to make sure it is compatible with their vlc at all times.
Funny enough, they did offer it until shortly after 2.2.0 was released, then removed it for some reasons.
In other words, they offered it while it wasn’t necessary, and then removed it when it started to be necessary… :\