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rhythmbox package

rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in rb_refstring_unref()

Bug #121358 reported by Raúl Soriano
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Rhythmbox
Fix Released
Medium
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Hardy
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I have a collection generated with rhythmbox in feisty and it works properly.
I've upgraded to gutsy and now when I try to play a file, rhythmbox puts an red icon near the file instead of playing it. When I double click the icon, a windows apears saying:

Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.

That window has a close button only.

I tried to play some other files and then rhythmbox crashed.

Reopened rhythmbox and the same thing happens but rhythmbox doesn't crash while trying to play files.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CoreDump:

Date: Wed Jun 20 17:00:42 2007
Disassembly:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.0-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
ProcCwd: /home/gollos
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
Registers:

Signal: 11
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Stacktrace:

StacktraceTop:

ThreadStacktrace:

Title: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux gato 2.6.22-6-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 00:54:39 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner src video

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/rhythmbox
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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote :

I found a fast way to reproduce it. I open rhythmbox, and repeatedly click on "play" button until it crash.

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote :

I noticed that the previous log complains about lack of symbols, so I installed rhythmbox-dbgsym and redo the backtrace.

Would be interesting a valgrind log?

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote :

I've found that this happens only if rhythmbox can't reach the audio hardware. I had an ALSA misconfiguration and once solved rhythmbox doesn't crash. Anyway this is a bug, if rhythmbox can't use the hardware it must say that instead of crash.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how did you misconfigure alsa? a way to trigger the bug could make easier working on it. Could you get a backtrace with libglib2.0-0-dbg installed?

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote : Re: [Bug 121358] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV

2007/6/26, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
>
> how did you misconfigure alsa? a way to trigger the bug could make
> easier working on it. Could you get a backtrace with libglib2.0-0-dbg
> installed?
>
>
 Well.... It's hard to tell. The misconfiguration happened during the upgrade
from feisty to gutsy.
I was trying thing to make rhythmbox work but nothing helped. I deleted
.asoundconf and .asoundrc.asoundconf from my home and nothing changed. Then
user asoundconf-gtk to select the default sound card (because I have 2 of
them plus a tv card) and then rhythmbox started working.

I tried to delete .asoundconf and .asoundrc.asoundconf but rhythmbox doesn't
crash now. Then I tried to select a nonexistent card (asoundconf
set-default-card nonexistent) and it crash again.

--
Raúl Soriano (GatoLoko), SpainTeam Local Community Contact.
http://www.ubuntu-spain.org - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/GatoLoko

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote : Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've sent the bug upstream, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451593

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed in the upstream svn

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied to hardy-updates and intrepid.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) wrote :

Ok, now it doesn't crash when the sound card is unreachable, but the error message is of no help.

"Problem occurred without error being set. This is a bug in Rhythmbox or GStreamer"

I'm using hardy now, and can't test it on feisty any more.

At least it doesn't crash.

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Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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