Rhythmbox uses 100% CPU and high IO and then crashes

[Andrew]

What I did:

  Double-click on a PLS file from http://evolectronica.com/ with the following contents:

    [playlist]
    NumberOfEntries=1

    File1=http://ec2-54-247-3-167.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8000/channel2
    Title1=Evolectronica - evolving electronic music
    Length1=-1

    Version=2

What I expected to happen:

  An appropriate program (I don't care what) opens and starts playing an internet radio stream.

What actually happened:

  Rhythmbox opened, displayed the text "Not Playing", turned gray, and for about 5 minutes used 100% CPU and caused extreme disk IO usage.

  For a brief moment, Rhythmbox regained its color and I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a list of data import failures. For reasons that escape me, the list cited many files from my home folder which have nothing to do with audio—things like operating system disk images, firmware binary dumps, source tarballs, etc.—and which I was not using at the time.

  I didn't get a good look at that screen because moments later Rhythmbox disappeared entirely, only to be replaced with the message "Sorry, the program 'rhythmbox' closed unexpectedly. Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 19 20:13:22 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[John Mills (johnmills222)]

On 14.04
What I did
Launched Rhythmbox from the Launcher.
Played a couple of wav files.
Closed Rhythmbox with the window's close widget.
Looked in the Sound menu to see whether it had made itself persistent. It had.
Right-clicked it there. After a long time it opened.
(may have played another file here)
The machine became very busy, mouse pointer disappeared.
Disk light continually on.
Opened another tty.
During the (very slow) login, a message appeared saying hda1 would be checked on next startup.
I ran top.
rhythmbox-metadata was taking 29% cpu and 60% memory.
Returned to desktop with Ctl-Alt-F7
In the background was the error message. Sorry, the program 'rhythmbox' closed unexpectedly. Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers."
Apport was taking 100% cpu but no notification from it appeared.

John Mills

[John Mills (johnmills222)]

Linux mybox 3.13.0-27-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 18:06:16 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
Rhtythmbox: Version: 3.0.2-0ubuntu2
syslog:
May 31 15:42:28 mybox kernel: [20282.927278] traps: rhythmdb-thread[12049] trap divide error ip:7fe8d207e587 sp:7fe8b4cf1b20 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.4000.0[7fe8d2046000+106000]

There has been a previous apport dialog.
I tried Ctrl-C to copy the messages but there seemed to be no (GUI) response

John Mills

[John Mills (johnmills222)]

Noticed this in the apport log

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]