Bug#250745: rhythmbox: On play gives Error Dialog "Could not create audio output element; check your settings"

[P. Oscar Boykin]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.8.4-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I tried gstreamer-properties to set the output to both ESD and OSS.
Both of which generate good test tones in the gstreamer-properties app.
Restarting Rhythmbox after changing the gstreamer sink does not seem to
have any effect.

This just happened when I upgraded to the this version of rhythmbox.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstrea 0.8.1-2        ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs     0.8.1-2        Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-mad          0.8.1-2        MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc         0.8.1-2        Collection of various GStreamer pl
ii  gstreamer0.8-vorbis       0.8.1-2        Vorbis plugin for GStreamer
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.4.1-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-3        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.4.3-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.4.3-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                1.1.12-4       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.0.1-13     Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.2.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.4.0-11       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.4.0-3        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.4.0.1-12     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common       2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                0.8.12-5       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0   0.8.1-2        GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0         0.8.1-2        Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.2.4-3        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.8.3-2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.2.5-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-0                0.1.2-1        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.9-2        GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  vorbis-tools              1.0.1-1        Several Ogg Vorbis Tools
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1-5      compression library - runtime

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