OK, I've just tried all this again. First of all, I have reason to believe that this might be partly or even entirely a display issue (ie: to do with how the desktop UI is displayed) Secondly, and rather bizarrely, Rhythmbox seems to be refusing to create a logfile at all today, so no new logfile, I'm afraid.
My first attempts to recreate this problem this morning were unsuccessful, as Rhythmbox simply failed to appear at all. Starting it normally from either the menu or an icon on my toolbar did not appear to work either. (Unfortunately, I didnt think back then to check the system monitor to see if it was actually running). I tried again. Same thing, but the display visibly flickered this time, to black, white then to my normal desktop, as if I had seen an open terminal window, a blank desktop window and then my usual desktop. I have encountered similar behaviour before, when trying to run EVE-Online via Wine on my old games PC (sadly now defunct). What had happened there was that some of the EVE graphics were being opened on a screen not being displayed to the user, apparently. I've also seen something of the sort when trying to run the netbook GUI on this nettop, which is why I gave up on it and went back to Xfce. I rebooted my PC (an Acer Aspire One nettop) and tried again. Rhythmbox is now displaying normally. OK, so I turned the plug-in off. Curious, I opened the logfile - empty. Odd. So I closed Rhytmbox, deleted the logfile, and started Rhythmbox again as per your instructions - bear in mind that at this point the lastfm plugin is turned off. Rhythmbox started and displayed normally, so I turned the lastfm plugin on, I was given a window in which to enter my account details. This did NOT display the behavior I'd seen before when trying to set the account details using the 'Account Settings' button. So I typed in my password, and pressed return, then closed the window. The system claimed that my password was not set. Odd.. Then I tried the Account Settings button, but much the same happened. Then I tried opening a browser, navigating to lastfm, and logging in. LastFM did not recognise my password! I'd add that I am very careful about passwords, and whilst yes, people do make errors on passwords now and then, I know very well what my lastfm password is, I've used it many times. Next I went to the lastfm reset password window, and rest my password to what it should have been anyway (ie: the same as I've been putting into Rhythmbox, the same as my lastfm password was when I created the account). Then I tried again with Rhythmbox - this time it said it recognised my lastfm account, yaaay! However, it could not seem to connect to any music - I am a member of the Brass Goggles group, which Rhythmbox recognised, but it said it couldn;t connect when I clicked on it, or highlighted it and pressed the play button. At this point Rhythmbox crashed and a logfile - again, empty - appeared. So I started up Rhythmbox again (from an icon) - and finally, I'm able to play music from Lastfm. In summary, there's some kind of display weirdness going on in this version of Ubuntu on this nettop, it looks as if my lastfm password may have suffered corruption at lastfm at some point, hence why even when I could get it into Rhythmbox it failed to work at first, and it's rather odd that once I was able to 'see' lastfm in Rhythmbox that it wouldnt play anything, claiming there was no content to play until Rhytmbox crashed, and I'd restarted it. I am now happily listening to music from lastfm though! Finally, I;d just like to express my appreciation for the patience of those programmers who've contacted me, and also for their efforts in working to make Linux better for us all. I don;t know if you get many thank-you's, but this Linux user, for one, very much appreciates what folk like you do for her! -- Rhythmbox not allowing 16-character lastfm password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508546 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
