Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox
My Dad asked me to take a look at his computer because he couldn't start Rhythmbox. Launching it from the Applications menu resulted in the 'please wait' mouse cursor with no activity. Running it from a shell with --debug revealed that it was trying to contact a previous instance that had apparantly frozen. The workaround was to kill all 9 or so rhythmbox processes in the system monitor. It would be better if rhythmbox would have a 5 second timeout for trying to contact a previous instance; if the timeout is reached, put up a dialog explaining the situation, along with a button that kills all rhythmbox instances and launches a fresh one. ** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- behaves poorly when a previous instance has frozen https://launchpad.net/bugs/66924 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs