Rhythmbox consistently crashes when adjusting app volume [Karmic]

[Øyvind Stegard]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Rhythmbox consistently segfaults when adjusting volume. The volume I'm talking about is the Rhythmbox application volume, not global volume. In Karmic, that volume slider seems to be mapped to Pulseaudio app volume for Rhythmbox [which is sensible].

Steps to reproduce:
1) Start up Rhythmbox.
2) Start a song playing.
3) Jog the Rhythmbox volume slider up and down for a few seconds until it crashes.

Apport should have collected lots of info. I installed the most relevant dbg-packages, so stack traces should be usable.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Nov 3 17:44:10 2009
Disassembly: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu5
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
 PC (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 IA__g_object_set (_object=0x1,
 gst_play_sink_set_volume (playsink=0x96a4068,
 gst_play_bin_set_property (object=0x962c180, prop_id=17,
 object_set_property (object=0x962c180,
Title: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_object_set()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1782): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1782): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1902): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1883): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? ()
g_object_set () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
gst_play_sink_set_volume (playsink=0x1,
gst_play_bin_set_property (object=0x962c180, prop_id=17,
g_object_set_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

[Dmitry Medvinsky (dmitry.medvinsky)]

Not sure if it's the same problem, but here is what I have: when Rhythmbox starts playing a song with ReplayGain info (replaygain feature is activated via gconf) it automatically mutes the sound. If I try to increase it, Rhythmbox resets it to zero again and again and finally it crashes.

[valtert (valtert)]

can someone link to the duplicate entry please?

Pedro Villavicencio wrote on 2009-11-12:
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

bug 455421 ; you're welcome to search on launchpad for it as well.