Rhythmbox crashes GDM session changing between songs

[Guillermo Pérez]

Rhythmbox crashes all the GDM session, closing all the X when changing between songs.

This *only happens if you are on another X session*. I suspect the new ubuntu changes the device permissions because you are on other X session. When rhythmbox ends playing songs, closes and opens the device, so the permissions get noticed, and crashes, and all the GDM session too!!!

I'm using directly the alsa device on sound properties, because with pulseaudio I don't get any sound on my speakers. Just after boot I can get it to work, but it ends not working. With pulseaudio this doesn't happens, the sound get muted instantly on the change.

Steps to reproduce:
1. On System->Preferences->sound Select your sound device directly, not Autodetect or Pulseaudio.
2. Open rhythmbox, play a song
3. Open a new X session with another user
4. Wait to the song to finish. When rhythmbox tries to change the song, the other X session will crash and GDM will re-launch a new login screen!

[Guillermo Pérez (bisho)]

Also I would like to know if there is an option to disable the change of permissions. At the home computer we have several X sessions oppened, and if one put music I don't want it to stop when I change to my session to check mail. I have been looking at the devices but I didn't notice any change of permissions and I don't know how this is being done.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

whatever rhythmbox does the session should not crash, seems to be rather a gnome-session or xorg issue

[Xyem (xyem)]

I'm experiencing the same thing in Intrepid.

It is very annoying, especially when not using GNOME ( using Fluxbox here ) with GDM as DM.
Will try switching to something else ( xdm ) and seeing if the issue persists ( take out possibility of it being an Xorg issue ).