Gnome Audio Preference crash when testing sound capture

[Daniel Silberschmidt]

A crash happens while testing the ich6 intel- mic adc in system-preference-audio-device-sound caputure.

Hapens always in my recently upgraded Edgy runing in a Acer travelmate 4021WLMI pentium m 725 1.6 GHZ 400MHZ FSB, 2MB L2 cache with 512 mb ram ddr2

i tried to transmit to lanchpad the crash report as an attachment....but crashed the transmition 4 times, is there another way i can send you the file?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. You can attach the version of the crash without the coredump. Marking Needs Info, without a backtrace the bug is not useful

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

Sending a new crash report

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the log. The backtrace is weird. Does the crash happens every time? Could you try to get a backtrace with gdb and gnome-media-dbgsym libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg installed?
- gdb gnome-sound-properties
(gdb) run
... get the crash
(gdb) thread apply all bt

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

yes the crash happens every time.

I installed libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg.

couldnt find any packet with name gnome-media-dbgsym

run what you asked...(with crash included) .and pasted below

is there any file i should atach you? A new crash report was not generated....

cactussediento@Remington:~$ gdb gnome-sound-properties
GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225693520 (LWP 17303)]
[New Thread -1277916256 (LWP 17322)]
[New Thread -1286702176 (LWP 17325)]
[New Thread -1295094880 (LWP 17326)]
[New Thread -1303487584 (LWP 17327)]
[Thread -1303487584 (LWP 17327) exited]
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
(gdb) thread apply all bt
Couldn't get registers: No such process.
(gdb)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can get the dbgsym package by following the instructions on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash. Could you try to get a valgrind log for the crash? (you can follow the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind for that)

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

backtrace generated after installing gnome-media-dbgsym

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

Valgrind generated....

gave the following output

cactussediento@Remington:~$ G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=12 --log-file=valgrind.log gnome-sound-properties
GTK Accessibility Module initialized

(gnome-sound-properties:30609): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible
Killed

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

Valgrind generated after installing libgail-gnome-module..

gave the following output

cactussediento@Remington:~$ G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=12 --log-file=valgrind.log gnome-sound-properties
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
Bonobo accessibility support initialized
Killed
cactussediento@Remington:~$

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your work, those logs don't look like crashes though, did you get the bug when getting the log?

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

thank you :-)

yes, the bug happened when getting the log.

gaves this message

Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile = chat!

(this text was hand copied...not obtained with copy and paste)

then i pressed close in the pop up window....nothing happened....finally the upper right cross of the aplication window....and obtained finally a forced quit of the aplication.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

i have just tried it in a feisty fresh install,

The bug is still there....

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducable with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Gutsy Gibbon. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

Tried on Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4

Bug is still there...

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

Tried on Gutsy Tribe 5

Bug is still there....Do you need any detail?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Having a way to trigger the bug or a debug log would be useful

[Daniel Silberschmidt (dansilber)]

In my Acer TravelMate 4020 with Feisty the following steps:

1- System
2- Preference
3- Sound
4- Sound Capture
5- Intel ICH6 - MIC2 ADC
6- Test

reproduce the bug

There are other ways....

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent the bug upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473097

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

I am on Hardy and have a very similar problem.
When I press the 'Test' button for sound capture, I have an error window that appears and that do not go away when pressing the close button.

I am giving the message I get in command line, as it is almost identical to the text in window, but also give where the error happens:
 paul@paul-desktop:~$ gnome-sound-properties
sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat': Failed to create stream: (null) [pulsesink.c(388): gst_pulsesink_prepare (): /pipeline0/gconfaudiosink0/bin0/autoaudiosink0/autoaudiosink0-actual-sink-pulse]
Note, I have no microphone plugged in.

Similar bugs are #138318, #107797.
Also #131711 but there people have also problems with sound in general.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is available in hardy

[Rarian Rakista (rakista)]

Getting it in 9.10 daily as well as 9.04

Failed to create stream errors.

[Rarian Rakista (rakista)]

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Manually selected the Analog inputs and outputs through the Gnome Audio Preference program and everything works.