On 21/11/13 06:00, Scott Wood wrote:
> For quite a while now, gtkpod has crashed when trying to add files to my
> iPod (80GB video). I finally made time to debug it (using the latest git
> trees), and traced it to a NULL pointer dereference in write_rths(). path
> was NULL, due to track->ipod_path being NULL. This was due to one of the
> tracks being duplicated, with the duplicate entry having no MHOD_ID_PATH.
>
> Is there any known bug in libgpod (current or former versions) that would
> explain the database getting into this state? I hacked up the code enough
> to be able to delete the bad file and continue, but is there anything that
> could be done to make libgpod handle such corruption more gracefully?
>
> -Scott
FWIW I implemented removal of tracks with null paths in Banshee, so you
wouldn't have had this problem if you used this other player.
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