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Bug 90963 - Prevent RB from crashing on bad library file
Prevent RB from crashing on bad library file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Normal major
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 90477
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-16 15:20 UTC by Alex Duggan
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0

Attachments
backtrace of the crash (2.68 KB, text/plain)
2002-08-16 15:22 UTC, Alex Duggan 		Details

Description Alex Duggan 2002-08-16 15:20:45 UTC 
Using rhythmbox/monkey-media built on 8/16/2002 from real cvs, rhytmbox
segfaults immediately after startup.  See attached backtrace.  Note, rb was
compiled by doing a 'make dist' and then using that tarball to compile, but
I don't think this makes a difference.
Comment 1 Alex Duggan 2002-08-16 15:22:12 UTC 
Created attachment 10537 [details]
backtrace of the crash
Comment 2 Olivier Martin 2002-08-17 20:49:01 UTC 
hmm almost sure it's the fact that you were using previous version of 
rb and updated to a recent cvs... the pbm is the new lib that has 
been reimplemented.

to get rid of the crash, just remove the old lib files:
rm -rf .gnome2/rhythmbox

Unless you cry, i'll remove the bug report in a few days
Comment 3 Alex Duggan 2002-08-17 21:34:05 UTC 
Correct, after some investigation I figured this out as well. 
removing ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox did fix the proble, buth is probably some
way to prevent rb from segv'ing on a bad library xml file.
Comment 4 Olivier Martin 2002-08-18 09:15:57 UTC 
Sure, and we should prevent the user as well.
Comment 5 Jorn Baayen 2002-08-18 17:04:44 UTC 
xml versioning is in
Comment 6 Mark Finlay 2002-09-15 12:19:38 UTC 
I think that this will be an issue when 0.4 is released - everyone who
had previous versions of rb installed will be met with an instant crash.
Comment 7 Jorn Baayen 2002-09-15 13:44:42 UTC 
mark: as the bug says, this issue is fixed ;)