Bug#644642: rhythmbox: Visualisations often fail to run

[Daniel Skorka]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.12.8-3
Severity: normal


Hello,

for me the visualisations fail often, although somewaht randomly.
Usually, they will work after Rhythmbox has been started, but stop
working after a few minutes. This failure shows itself in that the
chosen visualisation display a static image. Each displays one that
clearly would be displayed by this particular visualisation, or just a black
background. Only Monoscope sometimes still manages to update the image, but
gets only a framerate of maybe two images per second.
Stopping visualisations, stopping playback or skipping to the next song
sometimes gets them working again, but this is not reliable.
When the visualisations stop working, CPU usage stays the same, way
below full usage (something like 25%)
Please ask if you need further information.

Best regards,
Daniel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus               1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2             2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme   2.30.3-2              GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.19-2+b2          GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.24-1             GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-x    0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.30.0-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-6~bpo60+1      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-media0    2.30.0-1              runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgstreamer-plugi 0.10.30-1             GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1             Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0-0     164-3                 GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libice6            2:1.0.6-2             X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnot 0.5.0-2               sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-1+squeeze2     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpython2.6       2.6.6-8+b1            Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libsm6             2:1.1.1-1             X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.30.2-1              an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsoup2.4-1       2.30.2-1              an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libtotem-plparser1 2.30.3-1              Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  media-player-info  6-1                   Media player identification files
ii  python-gnome2      2.28.1-1              Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gst0.10     0.10.19-1             generic media-playing framework (P
ii  python-gtk2        2.17.0-4              Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon           0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.15-1         GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 
ii  gvfs-backends          1.6.4-3           userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  notification-daemon    0.5.0-2           daemon to displays passive pop-up 
ii  rhythmbox-plugins      0.12.8-3          plugins for rhythmbox music player
ii  yelp                   2.30.1+webkit-1   Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install         <none>       (no description available)
pn  gnome-control-center        <none>       (no description available)
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.19-2+b2 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
pn  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder <none>       (no description available)
pn  rhythmbox-plugin-coherence  <none>       (no description available)

-- no debconf information