Intermittent error parsing all podcast feeds in Rhythmbox 0.12.5

[Martin Jackson]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

After about a couple of days or so of functioning correctly the pod-catching function of Rhythmbox 0.12.5 all podcast feeds start to show a stop error sign and update all no longer works, if you try to update and individual feed the following error is reported:

Error in podcast
There was a problem adding this podcast: Unable to parse the feed contents. Please verify the URL: http://botchagalupe.libsyn.com/rss

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

# apt-cache policy rhythmbox
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.12.5-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.12.5-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
     0.12.5-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
 *** 0.12.5-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 17 11:11:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic 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)

[Martin Jackson (martin)]

Thanks for the info, I'll send the bug report details upstream.

[Martin Jackson (martin)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602303 submitted upstream.

[Martin Jackson (martin)]

Triage - From the Gnome Bugzilla

Try a "killall gvfsd-http" instead?

If so, then it's probably an fd leak in gvfs's http code.

This work around worked for me so I don't have to reboot all the time