totem crashed with SIGSEGV

[Joseph Fannin]

Binary package hint: totem

This is reproducible for me, any time I try to open mms://209.73.191.60/md2enc044?StreamID=79597343 in totem, which is streaming wmv of NASA TV. It used to work. VLC still handles it fine.

This is up-to-date karmic as of Jul 16:

libmms0 0.4-2
totem 2.27.1-1ubuntu5 (and all totem-* packages as well)
gstreamer-dbus-media-service 0.1.17-upstream-0ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.23-3
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.7-1
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 0.10.7.debian-1
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.23-3
gstreamer0.10-gnonlin 0.10.11-1
gstreamer0.10-nice 0.0.8-1ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-pitfdll 0.9.1.1+cvs20080215-1ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.13-1ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.13-0ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.23-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.23-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.15-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.12-1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.12-0ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.15-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-schroedinger 1.0.7-1
gstreamer0.10-sdl 0.10.13-1ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.23-2
gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.23-3

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Jul 16 15:34:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem 2.27.1-1ubuntu5
ProcCmdline: totem /home/username/files/streaming/NASA\ TV.pls
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.17-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x65d3dcd: movb $0x0,0x19864(%esi,%eax,1)
 PC (0x065d3dcd) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x19864(%esi,%eax,1)" (0x6e4e0baa) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: totem
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x065d3dcd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libmms.so.0
 #1 0x00001502 in ?? ()
 #2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libmms.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: totem crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev pulse-access pulse-rt sambashare src users vboxusers

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[Joseph Fannin (jfannin)]

The failed retrace thing doesn't look like fun. I installed the libmms0-dbgsym, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-dbgsym & libgstreamer0.10-0-dbgsym packages and got a backtrace from gdb, which I'm attaching.

Totem frequently did not crash when run under gdb; I had to rerun it several times before the crash happened. If totem will sometimes run w/o crashing in the absence of gdb, I haven't seen it yet -- i.e. it crashes consistently.

[Joseph Fannin (jfannin)]

I was able to get totem to play the NASA wmv stream after many crashes. So: it does work sometimes without gdb. It definitely appears to be timing-related.

[Simon Allen (garfunkel)]

Confirmed on fully updated 64bit karmic as of now.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The crash is a libmms one

[Dmik (dmik-for-maillists)]

Here is another backtrace of the same problem with the only difference that the application is rhythmbox (the same actually happens to any gstreamer-based application, for example Listen). I can constantly reproduce the crash by starting/stopping the playback of the specified mms stream (see the backtrace) 2-4 times in a row.