Bug 358767 – crash in Rhythmbox Music Player: can't play mp3's

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Bug 358767 - crash in Rhythmbox Music Player: can't play mp3's


Summary:	crash in Rhythmbox Music Player: can't play mp3's


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 353960

Product:	rhythmbox
Classification:	Other
Component:	playback
Version:	0.9.6
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	RhythmBox Maintainers
QA Contact:	RhythmBox Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2006-10-01 12:26 UTC by Andy Klein
Modified:	2006-10-01 14:00 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.15/2.16

Description Andy Klein 2006-10-01 12:26:13 UTC

What were you doing when the application crashed?
Trying to play any mp3's in rhythmbox 0.9.6 seems to generate a crash. These same files played fine in 0.9.5 (which was compiled exactly the same way).  Command line says:

RhythmDB-ERROR **: file rhythmdb.c: line 3989 (rhythmdb_entry_get_string): should not be reached
aborting...



Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy)
Gnome Release: 2.16.0 2006-09-04 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0

Memory status: size: 130502656 vsize: 0 resident: 130502656 share: 0 rss: 29388800 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1159705402 rtime: 0 utime: 278 stime: 0 cutime:260 cstime: 0 timeout: 18 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 5

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/local/bin/rhythmbox'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1228892496 (LWP 5031)]
[New Thread -1294709856 (LWP 5109)]
[New Thread -1311495264 (LWP 5105)]
[New Thread -1328280672 (LWP 5104)]
[New Thread -1319887968 (LWP 5101)]
[New Thread -1261462624 (LWP 5039)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 73909

Thread 1 (Thread -1228892496 (LWP 5031))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 gnome_gtk_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 __kernel_vsyscall
#5 *__GI_raise
from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6 *__GI_abort
from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#7 g_logv
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 g_log
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 g_assert_warning
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 rhythmdb_entry_get_string
at rhythmdb.c line 3989
#11 rb_audioscrobbler_get_config_widget
from /usr/local/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/libaudioscrobbler.so
#12 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 g_signal_chain_from_overridden
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 rb_shell_player_set_playing_entry
at rb-shell-player.c line 1320
#18 rb_shell_player_entry_activated_cb
at rb-shell-player.c line 2191
#19 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__BOXED
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#20 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#21 g_signal_chain_from_overridden
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#22 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 rb_entry_view_row_activated_cb
at rb-entry-view.c line 1654
#25 _gtk_marshal_VOID__BOXED_OBJECT
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#26 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#27 g_signal_chain_from_overridden
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#28 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#29 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#30 gtk_tree_view_row_activated
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#31 _gtk_tree_view_column_autosize
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#32 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#33 g_value_set_boxed
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#34 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#35 g_signal_chain_from_overridden
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#36 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#37 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#38 gtk_widget_get_default_style
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#39 gtk_propagate_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#40 rb_tree_dnd_button_release_event_cb
at rb-tree-dnd.c line 325
#41 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#42 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#43 g_signal_chain_from_overridden
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#44 g_signal_emit_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#45 g_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#46 gtk_widget_get_default_style
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#47 gtk_propagate_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#48 gtk_main_do_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#49 _gdk_events_init
from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#50 g_main_context_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#51 g_main_context_check
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#52 g_main_loop_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#53 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#54 main
at main.c line 372
#0 __kernel_vsyscall

Comment 1 Jonathan Matthew 2006-10-01 12:35:46 UTC

This happens when you have old plugin binaries in your $prefix/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/ directory.  We (somewhat foolishly) broke the plugin ABI some time after 0.9.5 was released, and then changed the plugin  install locations so that if a new version was installed over an existing install, old binaries would remain.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 353960 ***

Comment 2 Andy Klein 2006-10-01 13:15:58 UTC

I removed the $prefix/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/ directory as well as the ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox directory, reinstalled, and I'm still getting this crash.  Can you suggest a way to confirm that I'm indeed no longer using the old plugins?

Comment 3 Andy Klein 2006-10-01 14:00:58 UTC

Nevermind, I got it... working now, thanks.