Crashes during playback when another menu item is selected

[David Peterson]

Binary package hint: democracyplayer

I'm running democracy 0.9.6 on feisty and it crashes constantly - it is wildly unstable. I can report repeatable crashes under at least 3 different situations:

* Crashes when the last video in a set of videos finishes playing

* Crashes when a video is playing and you click one of the other menu items e.g. one of your subscribed channels

* Crashes when you pause a video part-way through playing and then click one of the other menu items, e.g. one of your subscribed channels, or the channel guide.

[David Peterson (dhpeterson)]

Below is console output when I run democracy, start a playback, and then click (during playback) on another menu item:

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/usr/bin/democracyplayer.real:81: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  import dbus_bindings
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus_bindings.py:5: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  from dbus.dbus_bindings import *
INFO Starting up Democracy Player
INFO Version: 0.9.6
INFO Revision: unknown
INFO Loading preferences...
INFO Starting event loop thread
INFO Restoring database...
INFO Connecting to /home/peterson/.democracy/sqlitedb
TIMING Database load slow: 0.564
INFO Recomputing filters...
INFO Spawning auto downloader...
INFO Displaying main frame...
INFO Creating video display...
INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon ****
WARNING Menu item action "CheckVersion" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "FastForward" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "Rewind" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "UpVolume" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "DownVolume" not implemented
WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created
WARNING Display updated before video display was created
INFO Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0
alsa
oss
pulseaudio
none
file
INFO loaded renderer 'xinerenderer'
TIMING Icon clear: 0.380
INFO Finished startup sequence
TIMING idle (Finishing startup) too slow (2.408 secs)
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpON4jvq.html
INFO *** Daemon ready ***
INFO got file:///tmp/tmp5OByw2.html
INFO got https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/
INFO got action:handleSelect?area=tablist&viewName=staticTabs&id=1083&shiftDown=0&ctrlDown=0
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpm0Jks9.html
INFO got action:playViewNamed?viewName=matchingItems&firstItemId=1043
INFO Playing item with renderer: <frontend_implementation.xinerenderer.Renderer instance at 0x8fa65cc>
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpbd-TtH.html
INFO got action:handleSelect?area=tablist&viewName=staticTabs&id=1084&shiftDown=0&ctrlDown=0
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 296 error_code 8 request_code 14...

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, since Feisty has democracyplayer 0.9.2.1, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

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