GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 672198
"Watch my library for new files" is broken
Last modified: 2012-05-15 21:45:18 UTC
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 with Rhythmbox 2.90.1. I have the "Watch my library for new files" box checkmarked, but songs I add under my Music folder never get auto-added in Rhythmbox. I found out some versions ago (probably with whatever Ubuntu 10.10 had, can't remember) that if I uncheck the box and recheck it, it will force Rhythmbox to scan my library and notice the new songs. Guess that's part 1 of the bug. Part 2 of the bug is that whenever I uncheck and recheck the box as of this version, Rhythmbox locks up soon as I recheck the box and crashes shortly after. However, when I start Rhythmbox back up, it sees all of my new songs at least. I've reported the crash with Ubuntu's crash reporting tool at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/917480 a long time ago but I never got any feedback besides having it marked as confirmed. I've even deleted my ~/.local/share/rhythmbox folder before to reset all of my Rhythmbox settings, but I still get this crash. Does everyone get this crash? It seems like a major issue if the only way to get more music into your collection is to force the program to crash.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it. Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
Oh seems like the launchpad link I gave is marked as private. I guess that's the default of the Ubuntu crash reporting tool? Dunno. Does this have enough information? It's one of the files the bug reporting tool included in the launchpad report: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/90251242/Stacktrace.txt
Can you still reproduce the crash ? It will be good to install debuginfo packages of libffi, glib, libgobject, gtk+ and provide updated trace and it might be good to get valgrind trace as well. See for more information https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/DistroSpecificInstructions
Created attachment 214147 [details] Terminal logging of rhythmbox crash. I'll try to get a better trace later.
Created attachment 214148 [details] Backtrace from crash
How to produce: - Ubuntu 12.04 - Music collection on NFS mount from Synology 1 Click Edit Preferences -> Music -> Watch my Library for new files 2 Close preferences 3 Repeat step 1:Crash
crash fixed in commit 39ab91a.