Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [bug] Player locks down.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:26, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:13, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:11, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> > > I've been using rb for a while and haven't seen this problem, but i
> > > usually play music continuously.
> > > 
> > > this causes rb to hang... no segfault, and processor usage and memory
> > > stay  normal.
> > > 
> > > reproducable everytime.
> > > 
> > > How:
> > > 
> > > filter the library view some how... have shuffle off.  play the last
> > > song... when it ends rb hangs momentarily then makes the status be
> > > stopped.  then select a playlist and click play.  it hangs everytime for
> > > me... output of rhythmbox -d gives me:
> > > 
> > > [0x80c7670] [rb_shell_player_open_location] rb-shell-player.c:666
> > > (14:04:27): Opening file:///home/douglas/Music/MyMusic/David Crowder
> > > Band/All I Can Say/David Crowder Band - All I Can Say.mp3...
> > > 
> > > as the line its hanging on... didn't run gdb on it as it doesn't
> > > segfault.
> > > 
> > > I'm running the xine backend as gstreamer is borked on my system. This
> > > could be a bug with the xine backend, not sure.  Could someone with
> > > gstreamer test this...  I dont' think this is a big bug as its something
> > > that doesn't happen very often, but it is very reproducable for me...
> > > always does it.
> > > 
> > > .... i really need to figure out how to use bugzilla :P
> > 
> > Run gdb on it :)
<snip>
> I stopped it with ctrl-z then did this... is that the right way to get
> the bt of a still running app???

Best is to attach to it while it's still running, and Ctrl+C it, get a
backtrace, type "continue", Ctrl+C again and backtrace, compare, until
you get a nice result.

Cheers

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>