Can't play anything (freezes)

[Vadim Peretokin]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I can't play any tracks at all - it just freezes right away. Attached is the debug log.

vadi@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
vadi@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy rhythmbox
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.3
  Candidate: 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.3
  Version table:
 *** 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.3 0
        500 http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net intrepid/main Packages
vadi@ubuntu:~$

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Here it is.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you give details on your audio configuration? is pulseaudio running and working with other sound softwares? what music and video option is configured in the gnome-sound-properties capplet?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

PulseAudio isn't running (I don't know why, but I don't mind - sound in
Flash, games, and other players works just fine).

Here are the sound preferences:

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you add the images to the launchpad bug so they stay available there?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

They will be as far as I know of, but here they are anyway.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's the other tab which has the interesting settings

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

My bad, thought I attached them properly

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you change those option to other value and see if that makes a difference?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Is there any specific one you'd like me to test in which option?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

try one of the alsa or oss entries

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

It works with ALSA now.

So the bug is that if PA is not available (for whatever reason... I don't have it running, yet sound options pointed to it, and everything worked fine. Quite messed up but hey it worked), Rhythmbox should say the cause of the problem?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

rhythmbox could to better there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

rhythmbox could do better there

[Amy H. (gamerchick02)]

Do you happen to have the "watch folder" enabled?

I was having a major processor spike with loads going up to 10+. I disabled that, restarted the app, and I've since had no issues with it.

Is there a memory leak with setting a watch folder? This just started happening to me after I did a re-install of Jaunty; I've since upgraded to Karmic to help the situation.

Amy

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I've just upgraded ubuntu do unfortunately I can't help out here.

On Oct 24, 2009 11:50 AM, "Amy H." <email address hidden> wrote:

Do you happen to have the "watch folder" enabled?

I was having a major processor spike with loads going up to 10+. I
disabled that, restarted the app, and I've since had no issues with it.

Is there a memory leak with setting a watch folder? This just started
happening to me after I did a re-install of Jaunty; I've since upgraded
to Karmic to help the situation.

Amy

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[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

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. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 334169, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.