Rhythmbox 0.8.8 (on 20050309.2), small bug i think

[Matt Galvin]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:05:32 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
<zamb at spymac.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:42 -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:
> > And sometimes when it hits the .bash_history it starts freakin' out.
> > It starts spawing error boxes saying "Could not start pipeline". It
> > just started 50-60 error messages boxes before I got to kill it.
> >
> > Yes i know remove the .bash_history from the playlist, sure... but it
> > should still not freak out like this when it hits it.
> >
> > When starting it from the cli it gives me this:
> >
> > --- snip ---
> > mgalvin at simplicity:~$ rhythmbox
> >
> > (rhythmbox:28905): GStreamer-WARNING **: element pipeline claimed
> > state-change success,but state didn't change to PLAYING. State is
> > PAUSED (NONE_PENDING pending), fix the element
> > Got error opening "file:///home/mgalvin/.bash_history": Could not
> > start pipeline playing
> > Segmentation fault
> > --- snip ---
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:03:29 -0500, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Running on 20050309.2 all I can say is WOW!!! Hoary has REALLY come
> > > together REALLY WELL!!! Excellent Job Everyone :)
> > >
> > > One small issue I have come across in my 30 min or so of using it is this...
> > >
> > > 1) I ripped a few songs from one of my CD's and i just had it extract
> > > the tunes to my home dir for now to test. This worked great by the
> > > way, (even from my external firewire drive which up till just now has
> > > been VERY flakey) using Sound Juicer.
> > >
> > > 2) Totem played the oggs just fine :)
> > >
> > > 3) I imported the tunes into Rhythmbox and it found the tunes ok but
> > > it also imported my ".bash_history" file. This is odd... no other
> > > .files, just my bash history. Weird:-/
> > >
> > > don't know if this has anything to do with it but this is the contents
> > > of my bash history:
> > >
> > > --- snip ---
> > > ifconfig eth0
> > > ping google.com
> > > ps -ef
> > > clear
> > > ps -ef
> > > ps -ef
> > > sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> > > sudo apt-get update
> > > exit
> > > --- snip ---
> > >
> > > Can anyone else confirm this when they get running on todays latest stuff?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> >
> 
> Hi Matt...
> 
> Is the snippet of your ~/.bash_history is exactly like you mentioned
> above?. 

Since this is from a fresh install, that is my entire bash history as
it sits on my machine now.

> The reason I asked is that Ryhthembox (or more precisely:
> gnome-vfs) identify the files by their content, so if the first few
> bytes of a file looks like a known pattern, it might mistakenly deal
> with it as that particular file-type!.  For example, GIF images always
> start with either GIF89 or GIF87 (you could even try it yourself: "echo
> GIF89 >~/Desktop/fake_gif_image" and nautilus will try to deal with as
> an image!).  To make the story short, delete the first few lines of your
> ~/.bash_history file and try again.

I will try this but i don't know why this would happen seeing that the
first line is

ifconfig eth0

> As for the error messages, I think the upstream developers should be
> notified (by a Bug report maybe?) or some one should check the HEAD CVS
> repository to see if this still happens!

I will check upstream and try a build from cvs when I have time.

> Sorry for all this (unneeded?) lengthy explanation!.
> -Ziyad.
> 
> 

Matt