rhythmbox crashes when loading my Music Library

Thanks for your bug. Could you install gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg rhythmbox-dbg and get a debug backtrace with gdb:
- gdb rhythmbox
(gdb) run
... segfault
(gdb) thread apply all bt

and copy that to a comment

Rhythmbox used to work for me on my workstation but now does not. I cannot remember when the change happened but I assume it was the Breezy Badger -> Dapper Drake change.

Whenever I run rhythmbox, it starts, the frame comes up, I can play music but the loading continues, it seems forever -- actually it seems to finish and then restart as though in an infinite loop of some sort. Well until the segfault. I ran it under gdb and got:

gdb>bt
#0 0xb7c02803 in gst_push_src_get_type () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
#1 0xb7bb482f in gst_type_find_peek () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#2 0xb521e32a in mpeg_ts_probe_headers () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttypefindfunctions.so
#3 0xb7bb4c63 in gst_type_find_factory_call_function () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#4 0xb7c02c6b in gst_type_find_helper_get_range () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
#5 0xb521471b in gst_id3demux_get_type () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstid3demux.so
#6 0xb7b9bad3 in gst_pad_set_active () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#7 0xb7b8a343 in gst_element_lost_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#8 0xb7b94db4 in gst_iterator_fold () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#9 0xb7b8a3e4 in gst_element_lost_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#10 0xb7b8a57b in gst_element_lost_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#11 0xb7b8a8ba in gst_element_lost_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#12 0xb5214cf0 in gst_id3demux_get_type () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstid3demux.so
#13 0xb7b899a8 in gst_element_continue_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#14 0xb7b89fcd in gst_element_lost_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#15 0xb7b88ccc in gst_element_set_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
#16 0xb524dfd9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdecodebin.so
#17 0x08292e78 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000003 in ?? ()
#19 0xb524cecf in ?? () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdecodebin.so
#20 0x086c43d0 in ?? ()
#21 0x00000000 in ?? ()
gdb>

It is perhaps worth noting that rhythmbox works fine on my laptop which has the same OS so I am guessing it must be a hardware related issue or an NFS related issue -- my workstation gets the files over NFS the laptop does not.

is that backtrace the crash one? if it keeps looping, could you run it with "rhythmbox -d" and note what it is doing?

Yes, it was. Here is the output as requested (I hope :-)

gdb>run -d
Starting program: /usr/bin/rhythmbox -d
(no debugging symbols found)
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225885472 (LWP 26628)]
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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[0x8123890] [rb_debug_init] rb-debug.c:129 (10:14:43): Debugging enabled
[0x8123890] [main] main.c:230 (10:14:43): initializing Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1
[0x8123890] [main] main.c:238 (10:14:43): going to create Bonobo object
[0x8123890] [main] main.c:249 (10:14:43): going to create DBus object
[0x8123890] [main] main.c:312 (10:14:43): Going to create a new shell
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

(rhythmbox:26628): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed

...

COuld you run "ls /usr/share/rhythmbox/art" and get a strace of rhythmbox with "strace -e open rhythmbox 2>&1 | grep png"? It looks like it's not finding an icon

Done, result below.

Just to add top the data, I see I forgot to say what was happening on the UI. Rhythmbox starts entirely as expected and loads all the artists/music files. The status bar right "doing something" indicator zaps left and right. Then it reaches the "done everything state". A very short time later it goes into "Loading..." state with the left-right movement indicator going, then back to "done everything". This moving between ready and loading continues until it crashes with the segfault.

501 balin:~
|> ls /usr/share/rhythmbox/art
./ about-logo.png rhythmbox-podcast.png rhythmbox-tray-icon.png
../ rhythmbox-no-star.png rhythmbox-set-star.png rhythmbox-unset-star.png
502 balin:~
|> strace -e open rhythmbox 2>&1 | grep png
open("/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-tray-icon.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so", O_RDONLY) = 18
open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-set-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-unset-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-podcast.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-no-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/rhythmbox.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/lpi-help.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 23
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/lpi-translate.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 23
503 balin:~

Sorry. I have been late. since I didn't have my external disk at my office, I couldn't test. There are the results :

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1226217792 (LWP 6225)]
...
[Thread -1311999056 (LWP 6245) exited]
[Thread -1320391760 (LWP 6246) exited]
[New Thread -1320391760 (LWP 6249)]
[New Thread -1311999056 (LWP 6250)]
[New Thread -1303606352 (LWP 6251)]
[New Thread -1259398224 (LWP 6254)]
Total Unfree 0 bytes cnt 0 [(nil),0]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1259398224 (LWP 6254)]
0xb5696773 in DMO_AudioDecoder_ProcessOutput ()
   from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so

(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 21 (Thread -1259398224 (LWP 6254)):
#0 0xb5696773 in DMO_AudioDecoder_ProcessOutput ()
   from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so
#1 0xb56830be in dmo_venc_register ()
   from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpitfdll.so
#2 0xb7b85804 in gst_pad_chain (pad=0x8e72258, buffer=0x8df4908)
    at gstpad.c:3221
#3 0xb7b85fa2 in gst_pad_push (pad=0x8e720d8, buffer=0x8df4908)
    at gstpad.c:3337
#4 0xb3d7a463 in gst_queue_loop (pad=0x8e720d8) at gstqueue.c:770
#5 0xb7b99d9f in gst_task_func (task=0x8df4868, tclass=0x8a19f00)
    at gsttask.c:193
#6 0xb71dc448 in g_thread_pool_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb71da5a2 in g_static_private_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb7a21341 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#9 0xb71214ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

Thread 20 (Thread -1303606352 (LWP 6251)):
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7a23eec in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb7a2f5dc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---

Oh, after I hit <return> I had a lot of other things. here is an attachement of all the result.

The problem is due to gstreamer0.10-pitfdll, reassigning to it

It is probably worth noting that now I have upgraded from Dapper to Edgy, Rhythmbox works fine for me.

This bug is going nowhere, and has been fixed in a later version.

I will close it for now, but if anyone has any more information feel free to reopen it.

Since upgrading to Feisty, Rhythmbox fails to work for me and I have had to switch to using Muine -- which I find to be an inferior user interface -- I much prefer Rhythmbox. I guess though that this deserves a new and different bug entry?

Rhythmbox starts fine but a few moments after I start to play something I get a crash:

|> rhythmbox

(rhythmbox:19544): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Couldn't find an x overlay
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
|>

Running under gdb I get:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1229408560 (LWP 19676)]
0xb739dcbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
gdb>bt
#0 0xb739dcbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
#1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
gdb>