Bug 215932
| Summary: | Totem can't start without soundcard | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steve <bugzilla> | ||||||||
| Component: | totem | Assignee: | Alexander Larsson <alexl> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | bnocera, bugzilla, dtimms, john.ellson | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.17.5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-01-26 18:06:27 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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Description
Steve
2006-11-16 13:05:10 UTC
Created attachment 141541 [details]
totem.strace
following the out put of $ strace -o totem.strace totem
I figured it out, the error appears if no soundcard is installed or detected! +1 on this bug. It bit me too. I think a lack of soundcard also crashes firefox under some circumstances, but I'll report that separately if I can reproduce it. 1) Playing movies without a sound card should be possible 2) The message should be a warning, not an error, and it should state clearly that no sound card is available. (Unlike the current user-unfriendly message.) I closed the upstream bug today: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170719 Patch attached below, will be in 2.16.5 Created attachment 142868 [details]
totem-2.16-dont-error-with-no-soundcard.patch
Bug is against rawhide, and I believe this was fixed in the upload of totem-2.17.5. Created attachment 153723 [details]
f7t4 screenshot of totem startup
While this bug has been closed and it is 3x months down the track, I am still
seeing the:
An Error Occurred:
"Cannot not open resource for writing" user-unfriendly message with:
totem-2.18.1-3.fc7 {fc6/updated/upgraded to f7t4}
$ totem
** Message: Error: Could not open resource for writing.
gstalsasink.c(625): gst_alsasink_open (): /autoaudiosink0-actual-sink-alsa:
Playback open error on device 'default': No such device
Note the machine definitely does not have sound capability, so it would appear the resource is the non-existent audio output. Should this be re-opened, or made a new bug. (In reply to comment #9) > Note the machine definitely does not have sound capability, so it would appear > the resource is the non-existent audio output. Should this be re-opened, or made > a new bug. File a new bug. I've already fixed this problem in trunk and gnome-2-18 branches upstream. Mind, the original bug was that it didn't even let you *play* anything after it complained about the error. Now you still get the error, but it will let you play the movie. |