Public bug reported: Rhythmbox just crashed on my Ubuntu 14.04 system on a Dell GX620. The Dell mimitower has the integrated sound and 4 GB RAM. The action that apparently provoked the crash was: I dragged and dropped three files from the Music list (in the main pane) onto the Play Queue icon (in the left pane). It was playing (not paused) at the time. Earlier in the day, I had pointed rhythmbox to my audio directory (in Preferences). RB had finished adding the tracks to the Music list. But afterward, I had made a few changes in some of the subdirectories of my audio directory.
At the time, Chromium was using a great deal of RAM, and tabs were open which had played video with sound. After the music stopped, apport displayed that there was not enough free memory to analyze and report the crash. System Monitor showed over 2 GB free. I realize my usage is a little extreme: - System monitor showed the rhythmbox process was using 255 MB of memory before apport killed it. - My audio directory contains over 50,000 tracks - There were 125 tracks in the Play Queue at the time. I had dragged and dropped them there, one at a time or a few at a time, from the Music list. lsb -rd sez: Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 apt-cache policy rhythmbox sez: rhythmbox: Installed: 3.0.2-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.0.2-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.0.2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages ** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450935 Title: Rhythmbox crashed when I added to a large Play Queue To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1450935/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs