progress bar doesn't scroll

[smmalis37]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

The progress bar in Rhythmbox doesn't scroll for any song. It stays at 0:00, unless I move it in which case it stays at wherever I moved it to. Since it never reaches the end of a song (progress-wise) it never goes on to the next song. The song still plays through perfectly, and hitting the next button works fine. The output of rhythmbox --debug indicates: "slider is not dragging"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

can you attach that log? does it happens the same with totem? are you using the cross fading backend?

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

It doesn't seem to always happen. After a fresh reboot it is working perfectly. The next time it happens I can get the logs and see if it happens with totem. I am not using the cross-fading backend.

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

Alright, happened again so here's the info. Rhythmbox log is attached. --debug wouldn't produce the line about not dragging unless I moved the bar manually, which I did a couple times. Totem experiences the same problem, and also video gets extremely laggy in totem when this happens.

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

Just found out that this problem also affects some flash stuff (youtube). Perhaps it's a pulseaudio bug somehow?

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

running "pulseaudio --kill && pulseaudio" seems to fix the problem. Definitely a pulse problem then.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Stephen G, why did you assigned this to rhythmbox again if the report said it's a pulseaudio bug? rejecting the rhythmbox task.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in current 9.04?

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

I can't test it anymore, I no longer use pulseaudio. It just got too frustrating.

[Rafik Elouerchefani (rafik)]

I have this issue in Rhythmbox 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.2 (updated Intrepid)
As in the attached screenshot, the progress bar doesn't move but the counter (here at 1:28) is correct and the player moves forward to next song at end of the current. I can't move it manually.
Si it might be not *only* related to pulseaudio.
Please let mt know if any other info is needed or if I should file a new bug.

[smmalis37 (smmalis37)]

does the command "pulseaudio --kill && pulseaudio" fix the problem?

[Rafik Elouerchefani (rafik)]

No it doesn't,
note that I have a warning with pulseaudio :
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.

[Joachim Sauer (saua)]

I see the same problem.

"pulseaudio --kill && pulseaudio" doesn't seem to fix it, neither does "killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio".

Note that I'm using a bluetooth headset, I don't know if this is relevant for this bug.

[Rafik Elouerchefani (rafik)]

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[Hannes_S (x-hannesstruss)]

This affects me as well (latest 11.04), but only if I stream the sound to a pulseaudio server over the network. Killing pulseaudio on the computer rhythmbox is running on temporarily solves it.

[Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge)]

Confirming what Hannes_S has described before: I'm still seeing this on 12.10 if I stream sound to a pulseaudio server over the network.

[Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge)]

Sometimes it also seems to "help" to kill/restart the PulseAudio instance on the sink (as opposed to the source, »the computer rhythmbox is running on«).