On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Walter Garcia-Fontes <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Sorry, this was not a generic message. I'm a user as yourself, and
>

Sorry, I'm tired of seeing bugs closed without any action on every new
release. I thought it was such an effort.


> upstream they don't even open the bug report if there is not a
> stacktrace to check.
>

This is the reason why they will never fix it, and the reason why I'm
actively looking for alternatives. A lot of time ago I stopped thinking
that rhythmbox would ever get fixed. No stacktrace here, just 2 minutes
unresponsive on every focus change on a Core I7.

Regards
Santiago


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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247259
>
> Title:
>   rhythmbox unresponsive every few seconds
>
> Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Since I updated to 13.10, rhythmbox is not usable. After it starts, it
>   freezes on every mouse click on different panes, sometimes it
>   recovers, sometimes it stays apparently forever "gray", and the dialog
>   to "wait or kill" appears.
>
>   When I arrive to the point where I can "play", it remains unresponsive
>   and I cannot stop playing or switch songs. This was not happening
>   since I upgraded from 13.04 last week.
>
>   Example output when I start it from command line:
>
>   $ rhythmbox
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_model_get_iter_first:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (tree_model)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_combo_box_set_active_iter:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_COMBO_BOX (combo_box)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_clear: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LIST_STORE (list_store)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_sensitive:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_combo_box_set_active:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_COMBO_BOX (combo_box)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_markup: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_markup: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652ce0 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x17865c0 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652b00 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x1786220 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652ce0 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x17865c0 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652b00 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x1786220 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_model_get_iter_first:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (tree_model)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_combo_box_set_active_iter:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_COMBO_BOX (combo_box)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_clear: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LIST_STORE (list_store)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_sensitive:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_combo_box_set_active:
>   assertion 'GTK_IS_COMBO_BOX (combo_box)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_markup: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_markup: assertion
>   'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652b00 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x1786220 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652ce0 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x17865c0 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652b00 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x1786220 is not mapped
>
>   (rhythmbox:12664): Gtk-WARNING **: RBPropertyView 0x1652ce0 is mapped
>   but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x17865c0 is not mapped
>
>   at this stage it has remained gray and unresponsive for more than 2
>   minutes and I don't know how to play music. I have a big collection
>   (almost 20000 songs), and rhythmbox has remained my player of choice
>   for its ability to handle this, but it is slowly changing (in 13.04 it
>   was very slow when it loosed and  regained focus, like 10 seconds at
>   100% CPU every time. Now it seems to last forever with 100% CPU...
>
>   I can help with debugging, I'm a software developer. The machine where
>   I run it right now is an i7 with 4 cores, 8GB RAM and a fast SSD, so
>   performance should not be an issue. The same music collection was way
>   faster in 12.04 or 12.10...
>
>   In 13.04 rhythmbox also stopped showing the performance year, which is
> still there in the metadata. This is a separate bug that has not been fixed
> in 13.10 :(
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-23 (256 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64
> (20130424)
>   MarkForUpload: True
>   Package: rhythmbox 2.99.1-0ubuntu1
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33-generic 3.11.10.5
>   Tags: third-party-packages saucy
>   Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-29 (158 days ago)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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