So I purged some of the gstreamer stuff with dpkg and reinstalled. The output now when I try to launch Rhythmbox is:
$ rhythmbox [4:00:23.298488375] [43683] ERROR Controls controls.cpp:689 Control 0x00000000 not in the idmap [4:00:23.298501354] [43683] FATAL default controls.cpp:654 assertion "validate()" failed in ControlInfoMap() -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1993751 Title: Rhythmbox won't launch To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1993751/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs