Totem crashes instantly after starting - memory overflow

[Jiri Grönroos]

Totem crashes instantly after starting it on up-to-date Oneiric installation.

abc@xyz:~$ totem

** (totem:2402): WARNING **: Could not create element 'gconfaudiosink'

** (totem:2402): WARNING **: Could not create element 'gconfvideosink'
Muistialueen ylitys (luotiin core-tiedosto)

(Muistialueen ylitys = memory overwflow, luotiin core-tiedosto = core file has been created)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: totem 3.0.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 7 12:01:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110731)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

The gconfaudiosink and gconfvideosink appear to be gone, they used to be in /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstgconfelements.so, which is part of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good.

However they seem to have been deprecated in favor of gsettingsvideosink and gsettingsaudiosink, which are in a shared library called libgstgsettingselements.so, which is currently part of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad.

Thus, two things are needed:
1- Installing the gsettings elements somehow, currently by installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad.
2- Modifying applications that refer to gconf{video,audio}sink to use gsettings{video,audio}sink instead.

I couldn't find any relevant bugs in either of gstreamer0.10-plugins-{good,bad}. But still, point 2 above means that most likely some changes will be needed in totem itself.

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[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Triaged/Medium: I can reproduce the issue and it's pretty clear what needs to be done (install gstreamer0.10-gconf by default or provide -gsettings sinks in -good instead of -bad?); I'll get to it shortly unless someone beats me to it ;)

[Claudiu Vlad (claudiu-vlad)]

So, did you get to it ?
Good luck, this is October.