tags 297734 + unreproducible upstream moreinfo
thanks
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> Under certain conditions, rhythmbox displays a dialog that says:
> cannot open play pipe
> (sorry if I didn't catch the correct words, but it was something along
> those lines).
Sorry, that's a bit too thin, I tried searching for "pipe" in the
Rhythmbox source, and the closest thing I could think of is the concept
of "pipeline" used for the GStreamer backend of Rhythmbox.
> That dialog keeps looping forever. The only way to stop it is to switch
> to a different console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and use "pkill rhythmbox". This is
> because the error dialog steals focus from you and it opens so fast that
> it doesn't allow you to close the application.
That's really strange, usually dialogs in Rhythmbox are realized with
the help of Gtk and only in an UI-modal way, but since I could not find
the particular dialog you got, I can't search further what's happening
with this dialog.
> This is a serious bug. At the very least, error dialog should be
> displayed once and block every other dialogs to be displayed until the
> user clicks "Ok" or whatever. And if the next error is the same as the
> last error, same something like: This type error will be displayed once.
(Of course.)
Now back to your particular bug:
You might already know that Rhythmbox uses GStreamer to play files,
maybe GStreamer has some trouble playing a particular file, or a
particular set of files, in your collection? Or maybe something
happens on your system (another programs starts, the sound card driver
crashes, etc.) that could explain why suddenly things fail?
Anyway, I can't reproduce your bug, and I can only suggest that you use
Rhythmbox' debug mode (rhythmbox -d) and launch rhythmbox from a
terminal with it's stderr redirected to a file for example. That would
permit you to get a debug log.
The best thing you could achieve is to reproduce the problem with
GStreamer alone, see the README.Debian file for tips on how to do this.
Regards,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
