pitivi crashed with PipelineError in setState(): Failure changing state of the gst.Pipeline to <enum GST_STATE_PLAYING of type GstState>, currently reset to NULL

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Binary package hint: pitivi

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: pitivi 0.13.5-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 8 20:15:24 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pitivi
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/pitivi
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_AU:en_CA:en_GB:en_NZ:en_US:en
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pitivi']
SourcePackage: pitivi
Title: pitivi crashed with PipelineError in setState(): Failure changing state of the gst.Pipeline to <enum GST_STATE_PLAYING of type GstState>, currently reset to NULL
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
Without bug reproduction instructions (and ideally, debug logs) it's very hard to determine what caused it.

Does it happen only with specific video files? If so, providing samples of such files may be helpful.

Please provide precise steps to trigger the bug. You can also create debug logs by running pitivi like this:

PITIVI_DEBUG=*:5 GST_DEBUG=2 /usr/bin/pitivi > debug.log 2>&1