Ubuntu
rhythmbox package

[feisty] rhythmbox toss out all my podcasts subscriptions

Bug #85005 reported by Michael R. Head
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rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I had left r-b up for the day to let it download all my podcasts while I was out. When I came back, r-b was unable to play my podcasts (clicking play had no effect, the button would depress, but wouldn't stay depressed, and no sound would come out). I then quit r-b, and relaunched it (via the music-applet). At this point, my entire podcast subscription list was gone (I previously had around 43 feeds).

I've looked back through my xsession-errors file and search through .gconf/apps/rhythmbox and .gnome2/rhythmbox for my subscribed feeds, but there were no files containing them. The Podcasts directory did remain, so previously downloaded casts are available to play from nautilus/totem.

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

It also seems to have lost my last.fm and internet radio "stations".

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote :

I can't say i've had the same problem, but without steps to reproduce i think this is going to be near impossible to pin-point.

The rythmbox database is locate /home/$USER/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml . It is possible that the xml file has become malformed; you may be able to recover your feeds by looking through it. However unless this issue gets some "me to" i don't think we can consider it a bug at this stage.

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

Hooray for transient user data loss!

Yeah, I looked through rhythmdb.xml. None of my podcasts, internet radio, or last.fm stations were there. It seems like the file was simply erased when I quit r-b. It was probably recreated when r-b was started and populated with just the details of my local music library.

I can't imagine how or why r-b would do this to my rhythmdb.xml file. Other stuff in the .gnome2/rhythmbox directory look OK (the covers directory still has the icons for my old feeds.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Did your user directory runned out of free space or something like that? To debug that problem a way to trigger the problem would be nice, there is no other bug open about that for the moment

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

No, as far as I know it didn't run out of free space. I know it's going to be essentially impossible to uncover the cause, because I haven't been able to repeat the problem. It just sucks that such a thing could happen. Maybe there is an unlink(2) call somewhere in r-b that occurs in some weird error condition, maybe not...

I guess this is closable as non-reproducable. Hopefully it won't happen again.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Closing for now then, feel free to reopen if you can get extra details on what trigerred the problem or if that happens again

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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