Bug#836897: rhythmbox: Rhythmbox crashes with segmentation fault when installing (and updating) software on the system

[nickpontillo]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 3.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This first happened/I first noticed it about 2 weeks ago. I ran rhythmbox in a
terminal to see the error and that's how I found out it was a segmentation
fault. The particular application I was installing when I was testing to file
this bug report was shotwell, and I tested the much smaller package "cowsay" as
well, which did NOT result in a crash. So apparently it DOES matter which
package is being installed. I guess that points to it having something to do
with dependencies?

Removing software does not cause a crash.

It does not matter whether one is using apt/dpkg through a command line or GUI.

To reproduce: run rhythmbox 3.4 and install a package. I guess the problem
might be with my version of apt or dpkg too, or something else. It seems very
strange.

Hope this is helpful.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
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       1.8.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.8.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                  1.8.3-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                           2.23-5
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  1.8.3-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.8.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.20.9-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0              1.2.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.40.2-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.40.2-1
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-shell [notification-daemon]  3.20.3-1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly          1.8.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio            1.8.3-1
ii  gvfs-backends                      1.28.3-1
ii  notification-daemon                3.20.0-1
ii  rhythmbox-plugins                  3.4-1
ii  yelp                               3.20.1-1

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install          <none>
ii  gnome-control-center         1:3.20.1-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad     1.8.2-1+b2
pn  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder  <none>

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