[LBo] Amarok won't start

[Anita Lewis]

On 09/28/2006 04:39 PM Tor Erling Opsahl wrote:
> 
> I use a fully upgraded ubuntu dapper. and amarok 1.4.3 I believe, I 
> don't remember, but the newest in the ubuntu repository
> the ps command gave me:
> torerling at torerling-desktop:~$ ps -aux|grep amarok
> Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See 
> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
> 1000     30972  0.0  3.2  76396 16600 ?        S    Sep27   0:00 amarok
> 1000     31076  0.0  2.2  76668 11604 ?        S    Sep27   0:00 amarok
> 1000     30993  0.0  2.5  76664 13168 ?        S    Sep27   0:00 amarok
> 1000     31362  0.0  1.0  13840  5280 ?        S    Sep27   0:00 dcop 
> amarok player transferCliArgs [  --cwd /home/torerling 
> --toggle-playlist-window ]
> 1000     31557  0.0  0.9  13844  5120 ?        S    Sep27   0:00 dcop 
> amarok player transferCliArgs [  --cwd /home/torerling 
> --toggle-playlist-window ]

You have a whole lot of instances of amarok running.  I don't know 
anything about this program, but I see that it uses dcop. I found this 
thread about shutting amarok down gracefully.  to me it looks like you 
might start with running:

killall amarok

Look especially at the last post in the thread.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=435515

PS: it looks like 'ps' is warning that we should not use the '-' mark. 
I did 'man ps' and see that there are two kinds of syntax and the one I 
recall is the one that doesn't use '-'.

Doesn't amarok just have a quit on it?  I wonder why it doesn't turn off 
easily?  Or did you say it had been crashing? Once you get rid of all 
those instances of it running, I think it will start correctly.

Anita