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rhythmbox hangs with no errors

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I am new to Ubuntu. I have been using rhythmbox for a few days and all of a sudden I tried to use it one day and it hangs after opening it. As soon as I open it I cannot click on anything. After a few seconds it dims like the screen saver is getting ready to come on. I have to force quit to close it. I have tried reinstalling it with the same results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

Does the problem happen for another user? (To test that, you can create another user account in System > Administration > Users and Groups.)

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Me (me2) said : 		#2

I created another user and tested it. It works with the second user. ???

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#3

In that case, the problem appears to be with your user's configuration. Perhaps it got corrupted. In some capacity, a bug in Rhythmbox is almost certainly involved.

These steps will require that you reconfigure Rhythmbox afterwards (including remaking or reimporting your playlists), but it will probably fix the problem. This will not actually delete any music files from your disk.

While logged on as the user experiencing this problem (not the new user), quit Rhythmbox if it's running, then open up a Terminal window (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and run the following eight commands. To run a command, paste it in (or try to type it in exactly, but pasting is highly preferable) and press enter. You're going to run each of these commands by itself, wait for it to complete, and then run the next commands. (But in this case, each command will typically complete virtually instantaneously.)

killall rhythmbox
killall -KILL rhythmbox
mv ~/.local/share/rhythmbox ~/.local/share/rhythmbox.old
mv ~/.gnome2/accels/rhythmbox ~/.gnome2/accels/rhythmbox.old
mv ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox.old
mv ~/.cache/rhythmbox ~/.cache/rhythmbox.old
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/rhythmbox
rhythmbox

It's OK if you see some errors when running these commands--that does not necessarily indicate that anything is wrong. The last command will attempt to run Rhythmbox; if this still fails, then the messages printed to the Terminal may be helpful.

If that fixes your problem, great. If that doesn't fix the problem, then select all the text in the Terminal (Edit > Select All), copy it to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here.

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Me (me2) said : 		#4

YES! It works now. You're the best. Thanks a lot, i appreciate the help. Thanks again.

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Me (me2) said : 		#5

Thanks Eliah Kagan, that solved my question.