Bug#439942: rhythmbox: Non-UTF8 strings cause crash

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 439942 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451595
thanks

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:02 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Package: rhythmbox
> Version: 0.11.1-1+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> Also seen in the version in unstable.
> 
> rhythmbox kept crashing on startup with:
> 
> RhythmDB-ERROR **: file rhythmdb.c: line 2699
> (rhythmdb_entry_set_internal): assertion failed: (g_utf8_validate
> (g_value_get_string (value), -1, NULL))
> aborting...
> Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
> 
> I had no music in my local library.  On a lark, I unplugged my iPod, and
> then it worked.
> 
> Somewhere in the iPod, I probably have files with strings that don't
> validate as UTF-8.  But how to figure out where?  It certainly shouldn't
> make rhythmbox crash like this in any case.

Hi,

It looks like this is upstream bug 451595.

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Sven Arvidsson
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