Yesterday rhythmbox was running smoothly but today it crashes only a few seconds after I hit the play button, regardless of track. I've tried disabling plugins, re-installing rhythmbox via synaptics, clearing the library and the rhythmdb.xml-file and just adding one album. Still, it crashes. If I run the rhythmbox from the command line i get the following before I have to force quit:

:~$ rhythmbox

Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied

Killed

:~$

However, if i run rhythmbox via the command line as superuser it does work. But i get the following errors:

sudo rhythmbox

(rhythmbox:8335): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(rhythmbox:8335): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/john/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

(rhythmbox:8335): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/rb/Loader.py", line 47, in _contents_cb

(ok, contents, etag) = file.load_contents_finish(result)

gi._glib.GError: Operation not supported

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 634, in

return (lambda data: callback(*data), user_data)

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I'm running rhythmbox on a Lenovo e335 thikpad edge. I hope I've supplied enough information. Cheers -John