kde -recovery

Amarok crashed when I tried to record a CD.

I opened a bug report and someone wrote back:

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> wrote:
>
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316055
> >
> > --- Comment #3 from Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> ---
> > (In reply to comment private mail)
> > >> Then: how would you record a CD with Amarok, are you using a script for
> > >> that?
> >
> > >Oh, I thought it was made to do this...??
> >
> > >when you put a CD in the PC, Amarok can play it while it is in the CD
> > reader, and if the user does a right click to the right of the CD icon in
> > Amorak their is a small ">" mark which opens to a menu. One option is
> > record to your local library. Once you do that, one gets a series of menus
> > to set up the labels of the recording etc...
> >
> > Sorry I misunderstood you, that is not called "recording", it simply
> > copies the
> > CD to the collection.
> >
> > Anyway, please upgrade to Amarok 2.7 and try again.
> >
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> >

I searched on the KDE site and found this procedure which was supposed to upgrade Amarok, but as I found out, it upgrades the whole system to a test system...

>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>

this was a major upgrade that ended up breaking KDE. I ended up with a white screen and no request to log-in.

After multiple tries I found ALT-CNT-F2 which gave me a console screen, and ALT-F7 which brought me back to the white screen.

I searched on the ipad for a way to back-out of this change...

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

this worked !

yeh !

I tried again to run Amarok, but alas, it always crashes. I removed it and reinstalled it numerous time with the same result.