Rhythmbox goes silent or freezes unpredictably (Gstreamer pad error)

[apparatus]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

After playing a few songs, Rhythmbox goes silent or freezes due to a Gstreamer error. I usually have to manually kill the application and restart it to listen to music again.

Please note: I used the "Report a problem" function in Rhythmbox but maybe this should be filed as as Gstreamer bug, I hope someone can shed some light on this.

Here's the output from Rhythmbox - I think the last two lines are the relevant ones.

peter@peter-laptop:~$ rhythmbox

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (rhythmbox:3886): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

(rhythmbox:3886): GStreamer-WARNING **: Element bin2 already has parent

(rhythmbox:3886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 3 12:08:02 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. 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)

[apparatus (kavitet)]

Thanks Sebastien. I found the bug in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603868
Any help is appreciated...