Rhythmbox 0.8.8 (on 20050309.2), small bug i think

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

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?.  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.

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!

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