Rom collection suddenly becomes empty

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Browse a game collection (specially a big one, with hundreds of roms)
2. Keep scrolling through the list until it "crashes"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
You should be able to continue browsing the game list until you exit or start a 
game. Instead, sometimes the list empties (there is no game in the list and 
year/genre/publisher/developer appear as "non available") and you have to go to 
the top menu to select the rom collection again (and wait for it to load all 
the games again). This behaviour is not consistent, it may happen once you 
scroll through every 15 or 20 games. Sometimes, this behaviour worsens and the 
whole XBMC crashes (it reloads automatically, but that takes several minutes).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
RCB 2.0.15 on Xbian 1.0 RC2 (gotham) for Raspberry Pi.

Please provide any additional information below.
This bug is not exclusive for this version of RCB and Xbian. I'm using the 
default 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by marcpal...@gmail.com on 23 May 2014 at 8:56

• Merged into: #154

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I just remembered that this effect can also happen while loading a rom list. In 
that case, the list will not be empty but instead will only show games from the 
point where it "crashed".

Original comment by marcpal...@gmail.com on 23 May 2014 at 9:00

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Can you show me a log file after this happened?

Original comment by maloep on 23 May 2014 at 11:55

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I just copied the log file from RCB start to the moment where the list became 
empty. It should be among the last 10 lines of the file. I don't see anything 
weird in the log. See for yourself.

I noticed that this behaviour not always happens when you are scrolling through 
the list, but sometimes when a few seconds of inactivity have passed. It's 
difficult to predict, but it happens almost everytime you load a rom collection.

Btw, the list is not completely empty. There's one item remaining: my 320GB 
unit. Let me show you a screenshot (attached).

Original comment by marcpal...@gmail.com on 23 May 2014 at 3:56

Attachments:

• [RCB empty list.jpg](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/romcollectionbrowser/issue-171/comment-3/RCB empty list.jpg)
• xbmc.log

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It looks a bit like this issue: 
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150969. If so, I am still waiting for 
a fix or some input of XBMC devs.

Original comment by maloep on 13 Jun 2014 at 3:55

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Yes, it looks like it is the same problem.

Original comment by marcpal...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2014 at 4:01

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Original comment by maloep on 14 Jun 2014 at 5:45

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