[Solved 50%] Rhythmbox crash (no sound, but the interface contunue to work) after , and exactly after,3 song, whatever it play...

[Gabriel Genois]

Solution : Desactivate the smooth transition ("Fondu" entre les piste (french)). The poblem is not repair, but now I can use rythmbox by desactivate the smooth transition.

If my english is to bad, here the french version :
Solution : désactiver la transition de fondu entre les piste. Le problème n'est pas réglé mais du moins maintenant je peux utiliser le logiciel.

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

- All was right before a general update.
- Progress bar refuse to start after 3 song
- No more sound
- I can stop the "music" without crash (but.. it has nothing to stop... I just see the bouton swithing to "play")
- If I try to start the song by clicking on "play" or in the list, application crash...
- No other program was using the sound server.
- This bug is permanent, allway after 3 song.

Please help...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Gabriel Genois (gabriel-genois)]

1. Activate the smooth music transition.
2. Restart RythmBox
3. Play a music and press 3 time on the "next" button. Then the music refuse to start. If why try to start again the music by anyway, the box come black and we have to force to quit.

- Im on a Laptop Compaq presario C500CA
- Music is on a Lacie USB Hard Drive 500go Ext3.

No more to said :(

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

why did you add solved in the title?

[Gabriel Genois (gabriel-genois)]

cause if we desactivate transition, no more bug. So 50% cause now I know that the bug come form this and now I can use rythbox ^^. But yeah... Not solved.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, please could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

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!

[Oscar Rivera (oscarivera9)]

I had to declare this bug as "New" again because originally it was declared "Solved" by Gabriel Genois who is the person responsible for reporting it in 2009, but it was in fact never solved. The symptoms described are the same ones that are happening when I use Rhythmbox. After I begin using it, I can listen to the first couple of songs, but then everything in Rhythmbox freezes and when I press "Pause" and then "Play" again, Rhtymbox crashes. Having closed by itself, I have no other option than to re-start it but that's kind of a hassle to do everytime I want to listen to music through Rhythmbox. I have a crash report that I gathered from the last crash and I will post it here immediately after posting this comment.
Thanx

[Oscar Rivera (oscarivera9)]

My crash report should have already been sent, but just in case anyone here wants to take a look at it I will include it here:
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Jan 15 03:09:28 2012
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
ProcCwd: /home/optimusprime
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcMaps:
 00400000-00405000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3030270 /usr/bin/rhythmbox
 00604000-00605000 r--p 00004000 08:05 3030270 /usr/bin/rhythmbox
 00605000-00606000 rw-p 00005000 08:05 3030270 /usr/bin/rhythmbox
 0060c000-02891000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
 7f5c7cc11000-7f5c7cc26000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3278542 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cairo/_cairo.so
 7f5c7cc26000-7f5c7ce25000 ---p 00015000 08:05 3278542 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cairo/_cairo.so
 7f5c7ce25000-7f5c7ce26000 r--p 00014000 08:05 3278542 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cairo/_cairo.so
 7f5c7ce26000-7f5c7ce2b000 rw-p 00015000 08:05 3278542 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cairo/_cairo.so
 7f5c7ce2b000-7f5c7ce2c000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3409937 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.so
 7f5c7ce2c000-7f5c7d02c000 ---p 00001000 08:05 3409937 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.so
 7f5c7d02c000-7f5c7d02d000 r--p 00001000 08:05 3409937 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.so
 7f5c7d02d000-7f5c7d02e000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 3409937 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.so
 7f5c7d82f000-7f5c7d830000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7f5c7d830000-7f5c7e030000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7f5c7e030000-7f5c7e031000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7f5c7e031000-7f5c7e831000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7f5c7e831000-7f5c7e8a3000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3026332 /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0
 7f5c7e8a3000-7f5c7eaa2000 ---p 00072000 08:05 3026332 /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0
 7f5c7eaa2000-7f5c7eaa3000 r--p 00071000 08:05 3026332 /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0
 7f5c7eaa3000-7f5c7eabe000 rw-p 00072000 08:05 3026332 /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0
 7f5c7eabe000-7f5c7eac0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7f5c7eac0000-7f5c7eaf0000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3026334 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflump3dec.so
 7f5c7eaf0000-7f5c7ecef000 ---p 00030000 08:05 3026334 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflump3dec.so
 7f5c7ecef000-7f5c7ecf0000 r--p 0002f000 08:05 3026334 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflump3dec.so
 7f5c7ecf0000-7f5c7ecf1000 rw-p 00030000 08:05 3026334 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflump3dec.so
 7f5c7ecf1000-7f5c7ecf7000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3022816 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcoreindexers.so
 7f5c7ecf7000-7f5c7eef6000 ---p 00006000 08:05 3022816 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcor...

[Gabriel Genois (gabriel-genois)]

Did you try to desactivate the smooth effect between song ? That "solve" the problem for me. After with update I can now activate it with no bug on ubuntu. I got the same issue with archlinux with gnome3 recently. I re-install the sound server and all it plugins and it solve it.

[Oscar Rivera (oscarivera9)]

@ Gabriel Genois,
where is the 'smooth effect' that you tell me to de-activate? Do you mean under Preferences-Playback-Crossfade? That's the only place that looks like what you are calling 'smooth effect' and I disabled it but still the problem is there.
Thanks in advance

[Gabriel Genois (gabriel-genois)]

Yes it's Crossfade. (My system is in french ^^). Then... it's not the same problem.

Can you say me if you are on "ubuntu regular", ubuntu + gnome 3, ubuntu + KDE + rythmbox, or anything else...

Im now on ArchLinux. So... you can try this:

- Full update
- Log-out then login.. try... if the bug persist :

- Check if an other audio-server is installed. If yes, check your setting if rythmbox, or the system defaut, use the good one.
- Re-install g-streamer and it plugin via synaptic (like full remove + install if you can)
- Re-install rythmbox via synaptic like g-streamer
- logout and then login
- try it...

[Oscar Rivera (oscarivera9)]

Gabriel, I will try what you suggested. By the way, I have been using Ubuntu Studio 11.10 and ever since this problem started, I switched to Banshee in order to listen to music. In prior Ubuntu Studio releases (11.04 and older) I didn't have this problem.
  I already tried the update option and that didn't work, so now I'll try the re-installation idea. I'll post something here as soon as I find out if the Re-Installation works or not.
Thanx

[Oscar Rivera (oscarivera9)]

Hello,
I've changed the status of this bug to Fix Released because whatever the problem was, it is no longer happening with the new version being used with Ubuntu 12.04. I've now gone back to using Rhythmbox instead of Banshee because the problem I was having has gone away. Whatever it was, it has been fixed and everything's working fine now. Thank you.