[Gutsy] Kino freezes when starting

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: kino

[Gutsy] Kino doesn't start with full GUI, actually when I just tried it a second time all I got was a window with nothing inside at all.

[Justin Payne (neolithium82)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug, however we are unable to fix it with the current information provided. Would you be able to provide the output of trying to run Kino from Terminal, and any backtrace if possible (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace) I experienced a similar problem, however with the current description I'm not sure if they are identical. I experience Kino freezing partly through the launch of the program, causing it to have to be killed.

I will provide my logs below.

Regards,
Justin

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

output from GDB with Kino

[riny (rinyfeller)]

Here the same problem. I only got a small peace of the logo in the window of kino. I started Kino again, but now in the terminal. Same results.

Copy pasted the contents of the terminal in a textfile.

[Jason Fergus (leech-sisna)]

I've got the same thing, even while trying the 1.0.0 package from getdeb.net and from Debian's Experimental. The only thing I could guess is the problem is that it does not like the new GTK. It worked fine in Debian Sid.

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

Ditto for me... here's a screenshot.

[Hans Halvorson (hans.halvorson)]

Confirmed -- exactly the same problem here (Gutsy on i386)

[Hans Halvorson (hans.halvorson)]

I just tried Kino 1.0 from Debian Experimental. The problem persists, but the following additional information is given when trying to start in the terminal:

***MEMORY-WARNING***: [7458]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

I've noticed this in a few programs lately: Eclipse, gnome-terminal, Kino... only Kino seems to have major problems, though.

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

When I say "this", I mean the error message about glib functions being called before g_thread_init().

[Tdey (tdey)]

Ok, my problem is the same.

[Bauldrick (gouldyis)]

I get this same problem

[Hans Halvorson (hans.halvorson)]

I initiated a discussion with the developer:

http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topic&forum=101&topic_id=2844&mesg_id=2844&page=

[Hans Halvorson (hans.halvorson)]

I initiated a discussion with the Kino developer:

http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topic&forum=101&topic_id=2844&mesg_id=2844&page=

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

Added a link to the SF.net bug tracker.

[Andreas John (derjohn)]

hm,
as stated in the thread mention by Snah Nosrovlah, the upstream version has fixed the bug. I droped-in their cvs and rebuilded the package. kino starts now (but at least one file overlaps with kinoplus).

Please consider using cvs from upstream.

rgds,
Andreas

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

I can confirm that CVS versions of Kino start up just fine.

Since Kino is in 'main', would 'ubuntu-dev' be the right team to assign to?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No, ubuntu-dev is not the right team, you are sending mails to the member of the team when you do, you should rather try to find somebody with an interest in kino to assign the bug or let it and wait for somebody to triage it

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

> to find somebody with an interest in kino to assign the bug

I thought that packages in 'main' were Canonical-supported...

> wait for somebody to triage it

'Tis triaged. We have a fix (I could build a .deb package for you), but we need somebody with upload rights to actually put the fix in place.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Hi Jon,

Can you attach the debdiff from the resulting .deb build?

Thanks!

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

Here's my debdiff file.

One issue is that kinoplus is (now?) in the Kino source tree, so kino now provides, replaces and conflicts with kinoplus.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

I've uploaded kino 1.1.0-3ubuntu1 to Gutsy, would you mind trying it and seeing if it still freezes when starting?

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

The fix works for me.

[riny (rinyfeller)]

Here the fix works also... Thanks