Sound converter frequent crashes

[eentonig]

Binary package hint: soundconverter

1. fonteyn@camel:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
fonteyn@camel:~$

2. soundconverter:
  Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3. Expected: I have about ~100G of .m4a files (sorted by ...\<Artist>\<Album>\..... ) which I want to convert to mp3. Since I'm fairly confident by now that all tags are fairly correct, I use Sound Converter (from here on, SC) to add a few <Artist> folders to convert. After adding them to the application, the application loads the tags and allows you to start the convertion inte a chosen format.

4. What happens: ~ 90% of the time, everything works fine. But 5% of the time, the application crashes while importing the folders. And 5% it crashes while converting the files. The crash behavior seems to be consistent. A folder that crashes during importing, always crashes during importing. A folder that crashes the app during the convertion, always crashes during the convertion.

I'll try to add a trace of the crash a bit further.

[eentonig (eentonig)]

Not much usefull info to capture from a cli. Only thing I see is "Segmentation fault"

fonteyn@camel:~$ soundconverter
SoundConverter 1.0.1
  using Gstreamer version: 0.10.18, Python binding version: 0.10.11
  using gnomevfssrc
Queue done in 0s
Queue done in 0s
Segmentation fault

And from /var/log/messages
Apr 22 21:10:01 camel -- MARK --
Apr 22 21:30:01 camel -- MARK --
Apr 22 21:34:44 camel kernel: [ 5865.145512] /usr/bin/soundc[26100]: segfault at 00000004 eip b41bc5d4 esp b3afcd70 error 4
Apr 22 21:37:52 camel kernel: [ 6014.306730] /usr/bin/soundc[27729]: segfault at 00024034 eip b1e4ffd3 esp b4afeae0 error 4
Apr 22 21:50:01 camel -- MARK --
Apr 22 22:07:50 camel kernel: [ 7692.928091] /usr/bin/soundc[10832]: segfault at 00000000 eip b2b35e49 esp b3afcc10 error 4
Apr 22 22:09:32 camel kernel: [ 7794.662748] /usr/bin/soundc[11921]: segfault at 00000000 eip b2d3ee49 esp b38fec10 error 4
Apr 22 22:12:22 camel kernel: [ 7964.770981] /usr/bin/soundc[13203]: segfault at 00024034 eip b2682fd3 esp b4cd0ae0 error 4

[William Grant (wgrant)]

We'll need a backtrace. This isn't a bug in soundconverter.

[eentonig (eentonig)]

Sure, how do I proceed to provide you with the backtrace?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

eentonig wrote:
> Sure, how do I proceed to provide you with the backtrace?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

  status incomplete

--
William Grant

[eentonig (eentonig)]

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-proposed/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-proposed/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/hardy-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
fonteyn@camel:~$ aptsearch soundconv
soundconvert - convert compressed sound formats
soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats
fonteyn@camel:~$

No luck in adding the debugging repositories, all others download ok. I'll try later today again.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

eentonig wrote:
> [snip]
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> fonteyn@camel:~$ aptsearch soundconv
> soundconvert - convert compressed sound formats
> soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats
> fonteyn@camel:~$
>
>
> No luck in adding the debugging repositories, all others download ok. I'll try later today again.

Those errors are normal, as the updates and security pockets don't yet
have any ddebs. soundconverter has no binaries (it's entirely Python),
so won't have debug symbol packages. Attempt a backtrace without the
extra packages, and install symbols for any packages containing files
mentioned in the backtrace.

--
William Grant

[eentonig (eentonig)]

For me, you can close the bug. I got a new laptop from work and no longer experience the issue. So I can't provide you with any relevant debug info.

[Hooya (tjbassoon)]

I experience this bug as well. Soundconverter 1.01, Ubuntu 8.04-64bit

CLI gives a simple seg fault. Happens on the same file every time. What do I need to do to provide more information?