Bug#227501: acknowledged by developer (Re: suddenly ignores .gnome2/rhythmbox/iradio-2.2.xml content)

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> writes:
> 
> >> So after the upgrade all the lists were empty (music and radios) ?
> >
> > Yup.
> 
> Ok, so after talking with walters I've some details.
> 
> If :
> - there is no "~/.gnome/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml" 

That would be "~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml" :)

> - the "/apps/rhythmbox/first_time_flag" gconf key is unset 
> 
> Then rhythmbox parse library-2.1.xml and iradio-2.2.xml to generate the=
 
> rhythmdb.xml file. That should happen only the first time where rb is
> launched after the upgrade.
> 
> Have you had some crashs with rb 0.6 (maybe a crash has broken the
> update).

Yes, often, during the 0.6.1 release.  

I've also had Rhythmbox jam dead whenever it looses a radio stream, forcing me
to kill it after it laid idle for more thna half-hour.  This bug was already
reported via BTS a while ago.

> You can perhaps test by removing rhythmdb.xml, unsetting the gconf key
> and launching rhythmbox after that to see if the new file is ok ?

Simply deleting rhythmdb.xml and restarting apparently regenerated all files,
which fixes my problem.  Thanks.  

I think that this tip should be mentioned in the README.Debian (at least) or
better yet in the Yelp manual for Rhythmbox.

Once this is done, we can close this bug.  Thanks again.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/