Description of problem: We have laptop A and laptop B. Both are running Fedora 12 rawhide. Both have the following: empathy-2.28.1.1-3.fc12.x86_64 telepathy-farsight-0.0.12-1.fc12.x86_64 farsight2-0.0.16-1.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-0.9.19-2.fc12.x86_64 So laptop A has a webcam. This webcam works great in cheese so I don't think the webcam driver is at fault. Both laptops are connected via Google Talk in empathy. Laptop A attempts to connect to the user on laptop b by right-clicking his name in empathy's buddy list and initiating a video chat. Video chat window pops up - you can see laptop b user's avatar and a PIP of laptop A's webcame video and it looks to be working fine. As soon as empathy appears to have connected to laptop b, the entire empathy client crashes. Laptop B still believes there's hope and sits waiting for a successful connection that never happens. I tried to install the necessary debuginfo packages but somehow it seems the backtrace still has some missing symbols. It looks like this crash may be related to pulseaudio and/or gstreamer. Just to note, I read the empathy FAQ on live.gnome.org and followed the instructions for getting around Fedora issues to the letter (have all the required gstreamer plugins, removed gstreamer ffmpeg plugin, updated farsight2, etc) and the crash is still occurring. Johanbr noted in #telepathy that there was a crasher in telepathy-farsight that was fixed in 0.0.12, but both laptops here are using that version so apparently this is a different crasher. Also note that around the time the crashes occur I consistently see messages like this (one per empathy crash it seems): Nov 6 23:49:35 localhost pulseaudio[9094]: ratelimit.c: 195 events suppressed Nov 6 23:58:52 localhost pulseaudio[9094]: ratelimit.c: 89 events suppressed Nov 7 00:04:24 localhost pulseaudio[9094]: ratelimit.c: 82 events suppressed abrt wouldn't report this for me (bug 531978) so i'm attaching the backtrace from abrt here.
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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just an update that i posted a bunch of debug logs upstream tonight https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601039
I also cannot video chat via the internet. connection is: computer+firewall <-> NAT router (no firewall) <-> internet <-> NAT router (+ firewall) <-> computer+firewall But all I get is: "Could not establish connection" in the empathy window. This happens on Fedora 13. Which ports do I need to open in the firewall and which ports needs to be forwarded in the NAT? Is a static setup possible or how is this all configured?
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