Bug#834721: rhythmbox window becomes black, still it plays the songs and responds to multimedia keys

[Fernando Santagata]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 3.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I'm using Debian sid. After the last update/upgrade cycle rhythmbox window
becomes black after a while, still the program appears to work, the multimedia
keys on my keyboard work, but the program appears not responding.
When I try to close the window, the window manager (I'm running Xfce) shows a
pop-up with the message "This window might be busy and is not responding. Do
you want to terminate the application?".
I tried to run the program from a terminal, but what I get is just:

(rhythmbox:16054): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(rhythmbox:16054): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files

(rhythmbox:16054): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_object: assertion
'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

Thank you!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus                            1.10.10-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.8.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.8.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                  1.8.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                           2.23-4
ii  libcairo-gobject2               1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                       1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.34.0-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1           1.48.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.48.1-3
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.8.2-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.8.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.20.7-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0              1.2.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.40.1-1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                   1.18.0-3
ii  librhythmbox-core10             3.4-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                    2.54.1-1
ii  libtdb1                         1.3.9-1
ii  libtotem-plparser18             3.10.6-4
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                         2.9.4+dfsg1-1+b1
ii  media-player-info               22-3
ii  rhythmbox-data                  3.4-1
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                            0.6.32-1
ii  gnome-flashback [notification-daemon]   3.20.2-1
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]       3.20.3-1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly               1.8.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio                 1.8.2-1
ii  gvfs-backends                           1.28.3-1
ii  notification-daemon                     3.20.0-1
ii  plasma-workspace [notification-daemon]  4:5.6.5.1-1
ii  rhythmbox-plugins                       3.4-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]     0.2.4-3+b1
ii  yelp                                    3.20.1-1

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
ii  gnome-codec-install          0.4.7+nmu2
ii  gnome-control-center         1:3.20.1-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad     1:1.8.2-dmo2
ii  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder  3.4-1

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