rhythmbox crashed with segfault and error 4 in libc-2.12.1.so

[ionash.]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Rhythmbox crash immediately every time I try to run it. Reinstallation doesn't help.

janusz@janusz-desktop:~/Pulpit$ rhythmbox
(rhythmbox:1968): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Naruszenie ochrony pamięci (core dumped)

/var/log/messages:
janusz-desktop kernel: [ 298.192808] rhythmbox[2781]: segfault at 0 ip 044e4770 sp b3eff068 error 4 in libc-2.12.1.so[4470000+157000]

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rhythmbox 0.13.1-0ubuntu6.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-26.46-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-26-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 6 18:02:29 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100323)
LogAlsaMixer: Error: command ['/usr/bin/amixer'] failed with exit code 1: amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=pl_PL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x74ba770: pcmpeqb (%esi),%xmm0
 PC (0x074ba770) ok
 source "(%esi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm0" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 rb_make_valid_utf8 () from /usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.1
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in rb_make_valid_utf8()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This should be private until the retracer can look at it.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __strlen_sse2 () from /lib/libc.so.6
 rb_make_valid_utf8 (name=0x0, substitute=63 '?')
 make_access_failed_error (
 stat_thread_main (data=0x99c0be0) at rhythmdb.c:850
 g_thread_create_proxy (data=0x999f750)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems similar to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546203

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, is this still an issue with latest on Natty? as Seb said it looks pretty similarto the bug he's pointing.