rhythmbox crashes with SIGABRT when ~/.cache/rhythmbox/album-art is unreadable

[Ted]

Rhythmbox crashes on startup in 12.04.

apt-cache policy rhythmbox
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 2.96-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.96-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.96-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Backtrace: (with debugging symbols)
#0 0x00007ffff67f3445 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff67f6bab in abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff6dfef5d in g_assertion_message ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff7b2e898 in impl_constructor (type=8940384,
    n_construct_properties=1, construct_properties=<optimized out>)
    at rb-ext-db.c:354
#4 0x00007ffff70a26e4 in g_object_newv ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff70a2ec6 in g_object_new_valist ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff70a31d4 in g_object_new ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff7b2eae4 in rb_ext_db_new (name=0x7ffff7b8c35f "album-art")
    at rb-ext-db.c:504
#8 0x00007ffff7af4b55 in construct_db (shell=0x8100b0) at rb-shell.c:608
#9 rb_shell_constructed (object=<optimized out>) at rb-shell.c:2132
#10 0x00007ffff70a2b83 in g_object_newv ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff70a2ec6 in g_object_new_valist ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00007ffff70a31d4 in g_object_new ()
   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00007ffff7af3a6d in rb_shell_new (autostarted=0, argc=<optimized out>,
    argv=<optimized out>) at rb-shell.c:2040
#14 0x0000000000400e6a in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe5f8) at main.c:97

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: a7b7c6be700da674f2e6dc61bef2a8d8
CheckboxSystem: 86f6fcdd6850a813cd5c77b7959e6176
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Apr 18 12:51:41 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1)
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Title: rhythmbox crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #976734, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Ted (tedks)]

Unmarking this as a duplicate since I've figured out what the issue was and the other bug is private.

I had restored my home directory from a backup, and the permissions on ~/.cache/rhythmbox/album-art were root:root 700. Changing the ownership to my user allowed rhythmbox to start.

Rhythmbox also crashes when the directory is unreadable for any other reason, though it will start fine if the directory doesn't exist.

So, the real bug is that rhythmbox assumes that if the directory exists, it can open it.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

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. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]