movie player kills network

[martinbures]

Binary package hint: totem

I was listening to an .mp3 audio stream from di.fm. The stream connected and played fine for 28 seconds. It then cut out but movie player still indicated that it was playing but the time was not advancing. Next network manager indicated that my wifi connection was lost and would not reconnect. Additionally, the performance of the system went from poor(gutsy crawls on my system) to abysmal. Upon reboot everything is fine.

My system is fully updated with the latest packages for gutsy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 12 23:31:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.19.90-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/martin
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: totem
Uname: Linux martin-laptop 2.6.22-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Sep 7 05:07:05 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug. Seems to me like a problem in your network caused the issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[martinbures (needemesleepe)]

Been pretty busy.

Here is an update and I will try to post all of the pertinent information tonight:

The problem seems to be where movie player intersects the network stack. If I stream an mp3 across my local network, it will also crash and during the crash it seems to take-down the entire network stack. Ping just sits there - no web pages will work, etc. After a reboot everything is good again.

[martinbures (needemesleepe)]

I have the source of the music on another computer and that share is mounted on the local machine.

If I am streaming the MP3 with movie player and advance or rewind the song, it immediately kills the network connection. Network Manager goes completely dead and seems unaware that I have a wireless device. I have not tried plugging in wired.

If I use AmaroK, I have none of these issues. This seems to be the only program that does this. I streamed a movie using the same method as above and I had no problems.

I am using the madwifi driver built from their svn repository and it is completely up-to-date. Otherwise, the system is kept up-to-date with the currently-available packages from gutsy.

Are there any pertinent log files that I could send you?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

looks like a network issue not a totem one

[martinbures (needemesleepe)]

I am sure that is a large part of it. Totem is the only application that causes this to happen, though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

totem might create lot of network activity, that should not break the connection though

[martinbures (needemesleepe)]

This appears to be the problem:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1017

Something to do with the madwifi driver and possibly an interaction with compiz.