Reboot did not solve it, I decided to remove my Rhythmbox database and settings from ~/.share/local/rhythmbox.
Now it works again but I lost my playlists in the process. A well, it's still the best Mediaplayer for me ;-) Thanks to anyone ever looking at this. -- 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/1070031 Title: Rhythmbox freezes at startup Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and along came a new version of Rhythmbox. All seemed to work well until today when Rhythmbox suddenly gave life. I kept clicking the icon but nothing happened (I saw no screen popping up like it normally would). Then I opened a terminal and typed "killall rhythmbox" and that killed the runaway process. Then I restarted by the Icon again now the screen popped up but froze after 1-2 seconds, not to wake up from. This behaviour is repeatable and the debug output (with -d) shows it stops at some query but each time a different file, E.g.: (23:20:44) [0xa0b6da0] [rhythmdb_add_uri_with_types] rhythmdb.c:2996: queueing stat for "file:///media/HI400/mp3/%23%20Collection%20Albums/Billboard%20Top%20100%20@%201950%20-%202005/1957/50%20-%20Billboard%20Top%20100%20-%201957%20-%20Fats%20Domino%20-%20Blue%20Monday.mp3" Perhaps it will be solved when I reboot but I wanted to file the bug anyway. At the moment the "freeze" is repeatable. I have about 290Gb of mp3 files in my library. I will attach the full debug log. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: rhythmbox 2.97-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 22 23:11:09 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) SourcePackage: rhythmbox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1070031/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp