update jaunty update: totem crashes when opening video & audio

[weirdfate]

Binary package hint: totem

opening any media file will cause movie player (totem) will open for about a second then close(crash) audio files open in other players vidio files will not open at all!!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[weirdfate (weirdfate)]

i have found what iu see as a fix to this issue
searching on the forum i found other people that had this problem from what it looks like they were using beta 9.04.

it looks like if you have a intel graphics card it causes a problem, I noticed i was not even able to aply basic desktop effects before i found this fix

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTart...telDriverTo2.4

it may create other issues down the road but fo now its all good!

[weirdfate (weirdfate)]

**link correction** to post above

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

downgrading the intel drivers workaround the issue reassigning there

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

A new major version of the -intel driver is now available in Karmic.

This version includes a major reworking of the acceleration
architecture, which resolves a huge number of issues. We do not know
whether it resolves the issue you reported.

Would you mind testing Karmic Alpha-2 and seeing if it is still a
problem? CD ISO images are available here:

  http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/

If the issue can still be reproduced on karmic, please report here with
your findings, and attach a fresh Xorg.0.log from your test, and we will
be able to forward the bug upstream.

Otherwise, if the bug no longer exists in Karmic, let us know that as
well.

In the off chance you encounter different bugs while attempting to test
Karmic, please report those as new bug reports.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

It seems likely to me this bug is gone; the -intel driver has improved immensely in Karmic and a lot of bugs are being reported as no longer present. So hopefully that's the case here too.