Rhythmbox can't start because an old instance is still running
Bug #47646 reported by
Julien Olivier
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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rhythmbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: rhythmbox
In dapper, sometimes I can't open Rhythmbox. CLicking on the icon doesn't do anything.
After investigating a bit, I noticed that, when that happens, issuing a "killall rhythmbox" fixes the problem.
So, it seems that, sometimes, when closing RB's window, the process stays around. Thus, when you try to launch RB again, it find the running process, and refuses to launch it again.
In Dapper, this seems to happen about half the time for me !
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Thanks for your bug. How do you close rhythmbox? What version do you use? The 0.9.3.1 from dapper? Do you use any plugin or other feature talking to rhythmbox? Could you get a backtrace of the rhythmbox still running?
- gdb $(pidof rhythmbox)
(gdb) thread apply all bt
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