rhythmbox spamming .xsession-errors up to 1GB in short time

[Achim Behrens]

running 13.04
rhythmbox cant play webstreams and spams the .xsession-errors up to more than 1GB in short time:

  File "_usr_share_rhythmbox_plugins_context_tmpl_loading_html", line 24, in render_body
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 625, in <lambda>
    return (lambda data: callback(*data), user_data)
  File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/context/ContextView.py", line 217, in playing_changed_idle_cb
    self.tab[self.current].reload()
  File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/context/ArtistTab.py", line 91, in reload
    self.view.loading (artist)
  File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/context/ArtistTab.py", line 120, in loading
    basepath = self.basepath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mako/template.py", line 412, in render
    return runtime._render(self, self.callable_, args, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 766, in _render
    **_kwargs_for_callable(callable_, data))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 798, in _render_context
    _exec_template(inherit, lclcontext, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 824, in _exec_template
    callable_(context, *args, **kwargs)
  File "_usr_share_rhythmbox_plugins_context_tmpl_loading_html", line 24, in render_body …

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.98-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 25 14:35:47 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-29 (485 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-24 (1 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Miguel Negrao (miguel-negrao)]

Temporary solution in http://askubuntu.com/a/94538/140271

[eupharis (eupharis)]

Hi. I'm running 64 bit ubuntu 13.04. I have a 45GB xsession-errors.old due to this bug maybe. I only noticed the giant log file because I started running out of disk space ;)

In the log file, lines 389 through at least line 234296146 are the following error:

"(rhythmbox-metadata:9473): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered: assertion `timeout == 0 || bus->priv->poll != NULL' failed"

This happened to me once before on this machine, but I panicked and deleted the log file without looking at 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.]