gnome-mplayer crashes when trying to play video file

[sudodus]

This bug is new (or maybe has come back) for Trusty. The same operation (playing the same video clip (mp4 file)) works when mplayer2 is started from terminal, and gnome-mplayer can play video in Saucy.

Some days ago gnome-mplayer only played sound (of the video clip). Now it crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-mplayer 1.0.8-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-14.34-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun Mar 2 01:51:20 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-mplayer
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140301)
ProcCmdline: gnome-mplayer file:///home/username/majaa.mp4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sv
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_8Jkrtu/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_8Jkrtu/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_8Jkrtu/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_8Jkrtu/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_8Jkrtu/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

After logout and also after reboot of the installed system, I could play the video in Openbox, and in a Lubuntu session. Was it a
temporary error, that occurs during the first login after installation?

Please test it in your computer or VM, and add 'affects me too' if that is the case.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1286660

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

I can get it to hang/freeze consistently by going to File->OpenFolder would that be the same thing?

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

Hi Lars,

I did not notice that particular thing, but yes, you are right, that was
how I started gnome-mplayer the first time. Afterwards I started it from
the terminal window or from pcmanfm.

So I'm pretty sure you found an important feature (maybe *the* important
feature) for the devs to be able to debug it :-)

Best regards
Nio

2014-03-02 11:07, Lars Noodén skrev:
> I can get it to hang/freeze consistently by going to File->OpenFolder
> would that be the same thing?
>

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

Now that I try, via File->OpenFolder in Gnome-mplayer, the mp4 file is greyed out and not possible to select. But it can be played via File->OpenRecent

So there is definitely something strange in Gnome-mplayer.

I have not tweaked the system or installed some extra package, only installed Lubuntu into a non-English language (Swedish).

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

Version 1.0.9 has now been released (it is in Ubuntu 14.10 which I am using). Are you able to test if it crashes in this new version? Are you able to attach a small example file that causes the crash?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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