feisty rhythmbox hangs randomly

strace -Ff -tt -p 6467 2>&1 | tee strace-rhythmbox.log

Thank you for your bug. Could you run "rhyhtmbox -d" from a command line and note to a comment what happens when it hangs or attach the log to the bug?

I have a similar problem with Rhythmbox 0.9.7 in Feisty, but it occurs also in normal (linear) playback mode, and only with one particular Ogg Vorbis file (as far as I am aware). When either selected for playback manually, or automatically after the end of the previous track, the selected track will not start playing, it will just stick at 0:00. As reported above, seeking forward will start playback from the appropriate point.

I've verified that this does not occur in Edgy (0.9.6-0ubuntu4) with the same file.

Output of rhythmbox -d attached.

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406703

Comment from upstream:

"This is probably the same as bug 409170. Disabling the visualization plugin
(or enabling visualization) should stop it hanging."

link to the bug 409170 doesn't work

That's a GNOME bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409170

fixed upstream now

That upload fixes the bug:

 rhythmbox (0.9.8-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - move to SVN and move round lots of files. yay!
     - use "friendly" date-time in track list
     - add visualisation plugin
     - support more lastfm:// URIs
     - split code out into a library common to plugins and the binary
     - display cover art in the tray icon tooltop and song-change notification
     - Magnatune improvements
     - core art improvements, support art for podcasts et al
     - Python plugin improvements
     - add support for the Jamendo online catalogue
     - support new Gnome "media key" mechanism
     - support track transfer for "generic" audio players, and improve iPod
       track transfer support, including transcoding
     - many build/run issues on Solaris
     - Nokia N800 support
     - Many core improvements, for future work
     - the usual pile of minor features and bug fixes
     - fix crasher on podcast update (Ubuntu: #83530)
     - fix hang due to the visualization plugin (Ubuntu: #84014)
     - fix crasher on playlist search (Ubuntu: #85144)
     - fix crash when trying to rename an ipod (Ubuntu: #86605)
     - fix tooltip icon when not playing (Ubuntu: #83701)
     - fix playing on double click (Ubuntu: #85743)
     - fix shoutcast title notification being displayed when there is no title
       change (Ubuntu: #86659)
   * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/90_from_svn_fix_python_plugins_amd64.patch:
     - dropped, fixed with the new version