If you have a crapload of files in your home dir, then rythmbox, in its infinite wisdom will try and index your complete home dir, and also try to setup an inotify against every file it finds, which from memory (and strace) will eventually cause it to get reams and reams of ENOSPC returns, which it ignores and bravely continues on requesting more inotify. (yes, that is a bug).
To change the defaults from this insane behaviour, kill it (if you haven't already) and restart. Immediately after restarting, go into Edit -> Preferences -> Music and untick the "Watch my library for new files" and then exit again, to ensure any indexing it spawned off won't be left running to completion Then optionally once you restart, go back to the same menu, and where it has "Music files are placed in", go and enter a single sane dir where you want it to index. i.e. /home/mymusic or whatever. There isn't a way in the gui to see where it will go index, so check the XML file in $HOME/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/ and check %gconf.xml for library_locations to make sure it doesn't have a bunch of junk paths. Finally, if you are brave, you can try experimenting with re-enabling the "Watch for new files" - and see if it sticks to the path you gave it above. -- Huge memory leak in Rhythmbox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420842 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
