Rhythmbox does not re-open after using Equalizer plugin

[dajare]

What happens: when I enable the EQ plugin and use it for session, all is fine. Close RB ... come back, and it will not re-start. The spinner spins, but then nothing, and RB is not present in the System Monitor.

My Work-around: If I go to ~/.local/share/rhythmbox and rename the rhythmdb.xml (to, e.g., rhythmdb.xml.BAK), then RB starts: I disable the EQ plugin, delete the "new" rhythmdb.xml and restore the old one and everything is working again. ... Until I re-enable the EQ. I have tried this quite a number of times now.

Plugin: I got from PPA earlier this week as described on Rhythmbox plugins Q&A AskUbuntu (which I have UV'ed and favourited :). There is no version info I can see in the plugin, but the contents of the equalizer.plugin file are:

[Plugin]
Loader=python
Module=equalizer
IAge=2
Depends=rb
Name=Equalizer
Description=10 Band Equalizer
Authors=Teemu Kallio <teemu.kallio@cs.helsinki.fi>;Floreal Morandat <morandat AT lirmm DOT fr>;Luqman Aden <laden@uwaterloo.ca>
Copyright=Copyright © 2008 Teemu Kallio, 2009-2010 Morandat, 2011 Luqman Aden, Icon Zdravko Nicolov
Website=http://www.lirmm.fr/~morandat/index.php/Main/Tools

I tried re-launching RB from terminal after having enabled the EQ plugin, and got this output:

> rhythmbox
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

(rhythmbox:4952): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Custom constructor for class SoupServer returned NULL (which is invalid).  Unable to remove object from construction_objects list, so memory was probably just leaked.  Please use GInitable instead.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 

System: I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 13.10 with RB 2.99.1.

THANK YOU for your help with this!

_{Trivia: I used to live in K-W, and worked years ago at WLU. Please don't hold it against me. :)}

[fossfreedom]

Hi - the segmentation fault is the key issue here.

I've come across something similar on another plugin (fossfreedom/coverart-browser@cbb135d). Give me 24hours - I'll push a known tweak I've used on similar plugins and hopefully this will resolve this issue. I'll come back here and ask you to apt-get update to check if the fix resolves your issue.

[dajare]

@fossfreedom - thanks for that fast reply. Obviously using the EQ plugin is not critical, but will look forward to seeing the fix and am happy to help in whatever way I can. (I'm usually good for the "numpty user" role.)

[fossfreedom]

@dajare - I've uploaded a new version of the plugin into the PPA - please update your sources and let me know if this has worked for you.

[dajare]

Updated - that's a fix! :) Thanks so much. I hope this benefits others, too. Grateful for what you do with these plugins.