playlist.xspf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

[Peter Listig]

Started audacious out of the console:

$ audacious
file:///home/user/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: audacious 2.4.4-1
Uname: Linux 3.3.0-996-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 6 23:53:42 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: audacious
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Peter Listig (m8r-d6v0ex)]

After deleting /home/user/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf:

** (audacious:5201): CRITICAL **: playlist_entry_get_filename: assertion `entry != NULL' failed
Speicherzugriffsfehler (← segv)

(dmesg)

[ 1802.791538] audacious[4632]: segfault at 44 ip 00007fdadea4746a sp 00007fff77e192f0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0[7fdadea14000+f4000

[karl anliot (kanliot)]

did you just type "audacious" and nothing else?

[Peter Listig (m8r-d6v0ex)]

I tried starting audacious from console w/o any parameters and with a playlist argument. Both failed.

The apparently random data in playlist.xspf did exist. It was a bug in ecryptfs.
Nevertheless a messed up config file should be discarded and not render a segv.

Deleting the entire audacious config folder helped. But a casual user you would not come up wIth deleting the config folder, esp. since no dialog whatsoever appeared when I tried to start audacious out of the start menu.

[Peter Listig (m8r-d6v0ex)]

(Add. info:) I do not know what other files were messed up in the config folder.