I had this problem in Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and rhythmbox 3.3. The only way I found till now to prevent rhythmbox closing, was to disable the automatic discovery of new audio files.
Thank you martell. Your script solved the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630455 Title: rhythmbox crashes soon after being start in Ubuntu 16.04.1 with rhythmdb_entry_get_entry_type: assertion 'entry != NULL' failed Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: For a few years, I used Ubuntu 12.04. I used rhythmbox in it all these years, it worked fine. Some library was collected. Then I upgraded to 14.04, and to 16.04 right away. $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS" After I start rhythmbox, in a few seconds it crashes, even if I do nothing. Here is the output: (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): Gtk-WARNING **: Duplicate child name in GtkStack: Add to Playlist (rhythmbox:22810): RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_get_entry_type: assertion 'entry != NULL' failed Ошибка сегментирования (сделан дамп памяти) rhythmbox version is 3.3-1ubuntu7. I'm filing this bug here by hand because aport does not see these crashes for some reason. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1630455/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

