Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] RhythmBox suddenly stopped working.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:57 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
> > When I start rhythmbox nothing will happen when hit play. I had then 
> > tried launching from gnome-term. When I hit play I get:
> > (rhythmbox:4465): RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_ref: assertion 
> > `entry != NULL' failed
> >
> > When I hit pause:
> > (rhythmbox:4465): GStreamer-CRITICAL **:
> > Trying to dispose element fakesink, but it is not in the NULL state.
> > You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
> > dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
> >
> >
> > Any idea as to what is happening?
> >
> > I am able to play the files using VLC or Mplayer etc.
> >
> > TIA
> > Scott
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> >
> Problem is resolved. Apparently Rhythmbox doesn't like pulseaudio. I had 
> been playing around with the settings in the sound control to try to fix 
> another problem and had switched to pulseaudio. Switching to OSS or ALTA 
> fixes the problem. By the way, I'm running Fedora 9, forgot to mention that.

It works just fine, and should really do. Make sure that your gstreamer
packages are updated properly. There was a bug in the last release of
gstreamer-plugins-good.

Cheers