This is in Dapper, and my gdb was -dbg. However, I just found out through a long and arduous process that my CD/DVD drive in this laptop is bad. I just now took out the drive and restarted and haven't noticed the problem with RB. (Last time I tried was yesterday.)
I'm closing this out and will reopen it if necessary. Thanks for following up Seb; you rock. ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- Rhythmbox freezes after a period of time https://launchpad.net/bugs/43656 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs