Bug 218070 - gaim/gstreamer segfaults when when trying to play audio notifications
Summary: gaim/gstreamer segfaults when when trying to play audio notifications
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gaim
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Warren Togami
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-01 17:49 UTC by Carl Roth
Modified: 2008-05-06 17:00 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-05-06 17:00:05 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Gdb messages from running gaim (29.89 KB, text/plain)
2006-12-01 17:49 UTC, Carl Roth
no flags Details
Gdb trace of gaim session (51.37 KB, application/octet-stream)
2006-12-01 20:44 UTC, Carl Roth
no flags Details

Description Carl Roth 2006-12-01 17:49:09 UTC
Description of problem:
Gaim segfaults when starting up.  The sound notification scheme is set to
"Auto".  If I turn off sound notifications, it doesn't segfault.

My sound system is Alsa, and my desktop system is KDE.  I'm including the output
of 'aplay -l' below.  My asound.conf is routing sound through the USB audio
device; gstreamer-properties is able to play test sounds through the device
without a problem.

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: U0x47f0xc001 [USB Device 0x47f:0xc001], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gaim-2.0.0-0.22.beta5.fc6
gstreamer08-0.8.12-8.fc6
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.10-1.fc6
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.4-3.lvn6
gstreamer-tools-0.10.10-2.fc6
gstreamer-0.10.10-2.fc6
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.4-1.fc6
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.3-1.fc6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start gaim
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Gaim segfaults

Expected results:
Gaim should not segfault

Additional info:
I'm including a gdb session capture that shows a segfault while calling a
gstreamer API.

Comment 1 Carl Roth 2006-12-01 17:49:09 UTC
Created attachment 142588 [details]
Gdb messages from running gaim

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2006-12-01 18:11:04 UTC
gaim
gstreamer
gtk2
glib2

Please install the exact matching versions of debuginfo for these packages and
get another gdb traceback.

Comment 3 Carl Roth 2006-12-01 20:44:47 UTC
Created attachment 142621 [details]
Gdb trace of gaim session

Comment 4 Carl Roth 2006-12-01 20:45:40 UTC
I installed the debug symbols, here are the versions:

gaim-2.0.0-0.22.beta5.fc6
gaim-debuginfo-2.0.0-0.22.beta5.fc6
glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6
glib2-debuginfo-2.12.3-2.fc6
gtk2-2.10.4-5.fc6
gtk2-debuginfo-2.10.4-5.fc6
gstreamer-0.10.10-2.fc6
gstreamer-debuginfo-0.10.10-2.fc6

The new gdb traceback is attached.


Comment 5 Warren Togami 2006-12-05 20:57:18 UTC
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397788
Debian seems to be having similar problems with gaim and gstreamer, but only
x86_64.  You say your problems were on i386?


Comment 6 Carl Roth 2006-12-05 21:31:42 UTC
This was an i386/i686 system.


Comment 7 Warren Togami 2006-12-06 19:51:56 UTC
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/packages/unstable/gaim/debian/patches/
I am testing patch 12 from Debian.
http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/gaim-gstreamer/
Please try this FC6 i386 package and report back.
- Does it crash?
- Does sound work?


Comment 8 Carl Roth 2006-12-07 14:31:05 UTC
I tried your build 27 gaim package, and I get the following result:

 * gaim starts correctly, does not crash
 * sound does not work

Messages in the gaim log mention

  sound: Unable to create GStreamer audiosink.

but when I run gstreamer-properties separately, test sounds do work.


Comment 9 Warren Togami 2006-12-07 17:45:16 UTC
"sound: Unable to create GStreamer audiosink."

Does this mean that it is unable to find a suitable output device?

Strange that gstreamer-properties test would work though...

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:03:01 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 17:00:03 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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