Amarok crashes, complains about kmail

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:39:02 -0500
"Carthik Sharma" <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am an ubuntu user who's been using Amarok successfully till earlier
> today. Now when I start it up, I get the following error message (in
> the terminal):
> 
> QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to
> layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
> QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap
> kio (Scheduler): FATAL: BUG! _ScheduleJob(): No extraJobData for job!
> Could not find 'kmail' executable.
> 
> I also get a gui popup window saying "Could not 'Kmail' executable"
> 
> What caused this problem, how do I report this as a bug? Is there an
> easy way to fix this?

What happens if you try it as a different user? Create a "test" user and
add that user to the same groups as your usual user (obviously "audio" is
one of the important groups here) , the rest might look like

test (or whatever you call the new user) adm dialout cdrom floppy audio
dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner 

The reasoning is that it might be an issue with some of the user's dot
files .

If the new user "works" at least you can move any amarok or kde related
dot files out of the way and see if that helps. Seems an odd error message.

Peter