Done, result below. Just to add top the data, I see I forgot to say what was happening on the UI. Rhythmbox starts entirely as expected and loads all the artists/music files. The status bar right "doing something" indicator zaps left and right. Then it reaches the "done everything state". A very short time later it goes into "Loading..." state with the left- right movement indicator going, then back to "done everything". This moving between ready and loading continues until it crashes with the segfault.
501 balin:~ |> ls /usr/share/rhythmbox/art ./ about-logo.png rhythmbox-podcast.png rhythmbox-tray-icon.png ../ rhythmbox-no-star.png rhythmbox-set-star.png rhythmbox-unset-star.png 502 balin:~ |> strace -e open rhythmbox 2>&1 | grep png open("/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-tray-icon.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so", O_RDONLY) = 18 open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-set-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-unset-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-podcast.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/share/rhythmbox/art/rhythmbox-no-star.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/rhythmbox.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/lpi-help.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 23 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/lpi-translate.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 23 503 balin:~ -- rhythmbox crashes when loading my Music Library https://launchpad.net/bugs/54841 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs