Totem movie player hangs on startup

[Rick Nakroshis]

On starting up the Totem movie player, it hangs before I have a chance to open any files or do anything else with it. After an hour, the mouse cursor was still spinning.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 22 20:15:41 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/rick
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Do you use totem-gstreamer or totem-xine? How did you run it? Does it happen every time? Could you get a backtrace of the hang (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace)?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

[tassie7005 (kohnert)]

I too have a problem with the Totem movie player, being new to Ubuntu, I find it difficult to negotiate my way around yet and would appreciate any help. Trying to install another movie player I get the following error message : E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. Where is E: and how do I get to masnually run dpkg whatever that is?
Thanks to all that might be able to help a newbee that otherwise loves Linux,
Rolf

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug tracker is not for user questions, you might wan to use the support tracker, http://launchpad.net/support

[Cesium (cesium62)]

I took a backtrace of totem movie while it was hanging:

(gdb) where
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb704603b in semop () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb6cf55a1 in snd_pcm_dmix_open () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
#3 0xb6cf6287 in _snd_pcm_dmix_open () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
#4 0xb6cc4385 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
...

(Beyond frame 4 is not interesting since insufficient debugging information was available to display procedure names, files, etc.)

Is the program trying to get exclusive access to a sound device? Should the software check to see if the device is already in use? Should it use a timeout?

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