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Bug 772438 - gnome-music crashes if linked folders are placed in ~/Music folder
gnome-music crashes if linked folders are placed in ~/Music folder
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-10-05 05:23 UTC by Robert Felmey
Modified: 2016-10-05 16:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.19/3.20


Description Robert Felmey 2016-10-05 05:23:36 UTC 
Description:

gnome-music player crashes within seconds of opening when I have folders mounted within ~/Music directory. The app starts to populate album images and then closes without notice. (The app works if files are put directly in Music and the linked folder is deleted.)

Additional info:
gnome-music 3.20.2-1
Arch Linux
Possibly related to GNOME Bug ID 726264

Steps to reproduce:
Mounted a Windows 10 NTFS partition to /mnt/windows and then performed ln -s /mnt/windows/Users/username/Music ~/Music/Windows
Opened Gnome Music from Gnome-Shell
(I could not find any log files that could help explain what happened.)
Comment 1 Robert Felmey 2016-10-05 05:40:10 UTC 
Update: I installed lollypop via Arch pacman and files in linked folder within ~/Music are playing correctly in that app.
Comment 2 Marinus Schraal 2016-10-05 10:38:45 UTC 
Thanks for your report, this (linking folders to ~/Music) is not necessarily a thing that we support at this time.

Can you attach the output of 'gnome-music -d' running via the commandline?

Could you also please test the latest stable release instead: 3.22.0?
Comment 3 Robert Felmey 2016-10-05 16:17:14 UTC 
Marinus, running 'gnome -d' through commandline worked without any problem and allowed the import of the linked folder.  (I had previously been selecting "Music" through the Gnome-shell UI.) After it finished importing via the command line, I closed the app and opened it through Gnome-shell and did not experience any problems.  gnome-music 2.30.2-1 no longer crashes on my system.  Thank you.  I will make this as resolved.