Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 218070
gaim/gstreamer segfaults when when trying to play audio notifications
Last modified: 2008-05-06 13:00:05 EDT
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.
Created attachment 142588 [details] Gdb messages from running gaim
gaim gstreamer gtk2 glib2 Please install the exact matching versions of debuginfo for these packages and get another gdb traceback.
Created attachment 142621 [details] Gdb trace of gaim session
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.
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?
This was an i386/i686 system.
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?
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.
"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...
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