I seem to have a very similar problem to that originally described. My software versions:
ii amarok 1.4.4-4 versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE ii amarok-engines 1.4.4-4 output engines for the Amarok audio player ii amarok-xine 1.4.4-4 xine engine for the Amarok audio player ii libxine1 1.1.2+dfsg-2 the xine video/media player library, binary files Following is a backtrace of what it looks like when amarok hangs. The folks in irc://irc.freenode.net/#amarok tell me this is not useful because the debug symbols are missing. The hangs only seem to happen when amarok is more than halfway (guess) through a track. If i skip through tracks reasonably quickly it doesn't hang, nor does it if i listen to one Internet radio station for a significant period of time. I have a feeling it might have something to do with last.fm track submission, since i can turn off track submission and it will play reliably for several tracks. #0 0x00002ba6792583bf in read () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002ba67a54802f in _kde_IceTransGetConnectionNumber () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #2 0x00002ba67a54217b in _kde_IceRead () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #3 0x00002ba67a5464a0 in KDE_IceProcessMessages () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #4 0x00002ba67a53421d in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #5 0x00002ba67a534518 in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #6 0x00002ba67a538a58 in DCOPClient::call () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #7 0x00002ba67a53b609 in DCOPRef::callInternal () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #8 0x00002ba67a53b6a7 in DCOPRef::callInternal () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 #9 0x00002ba67715353d in KProtocolManager::proxyForURL () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #10 0x00002ba67715375d in KProtocolManager::slaveProtocol () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #11 0x00002ba67715469b in KIO::Scheduler::_doJob () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #12 0x00002ba677158812 in KIO::SimpleJob::SimpleJob () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #13 0x00002ba67715d08d in KIO::TransferJob::TransferJob () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #14 0x00002ba67715f236 in KIO::http_post () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 #15 0x00002ba676b581c5 in ScrobblerSubmitter::performSubmit () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #16 0x00002ba676b584f7 in ScrobblerSubmitter::schedule () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #17 0x00002ba676b59abf in ScrobblerSubmitter::submitItem () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #18 0x00002ba676b59bf9 in Scrobbler::engineTrackPositionChanged () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #19 0x00002ba676a28c67 in EngineSubject::trackPositionChangedNotify () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #20 0x00002ba676a24d5b in EngineController::slotMainTimer () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #21 0x00002ba676a27f46 in EngineController::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libamarok.so.0 #22 0x00002ba6797e3c26 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x00002ba6797e47b6 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0x00002ba679b52ada in QTimer::timeout () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0x00002ba679809fef in QTimer::event () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0x00002ba67977f262 in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #27 0x00002ba67978100c in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0x00002ba677b008be in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #29 0x00002ba679712802 in QApplication::sendEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #30 0x00002ba67977257c in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #31 0x00002ba679726584 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #32 0x00002ba6797987ee in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #33 0x00002ba6797985f7 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #34 0x00002ba679780d40 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #35 0x0000000000404778 in ?? () #36 0x00002ba6791b84ca in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #37 0x000000000040413a in ?? () #38 0x00007fff34452a18 in ?? () #39 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]