Comment 4 for bug 278790

It also appears that the rhythmbox package doesn't depend on python-louie and python-coherence, so a standard install won't even let you load the plug-in. And if you don't know to look at console errors and find the python errors, you'll never know why. I've had this issue on hardy and still on intrepid. After installing the python packages, I get a python traceback on the console when the coherence plug-in loads, about detected_media_server() takes exactly 3 non-keyword args, but only 2 are being passed in. Subsequently, exiting rhytmbox takes a while, as coherence is slow at shutting down. The window gets destroyed, but my console is not returned to me for a few seconds.