Comment 22 for bug 72814

It doesn't appear that this is fixed in gutsy. I just hit it after an upgrade to gutsy from feisty on my (non-altivec) iBook G3 900Mhz:

~$ gstreamer-properties
Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal
Run 'gstreamer-properties --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

an strace -f gstreamer-properties shows this, which appears similar to this bug:

...
[pid 13026] open("/usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 15
[pid 13026] read(15, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\24\0\0\0\1\0\1\207"..., 512) = 512
[pid 13026] fstat64(15, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=408628, ...}) = 0
[pid 13026] mmap(0xdb4b000, 483044, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 15, 0) = 0xdb4b000
[pid 13026] mprotect(0xdba1000, 61440, PROT_NONE) = 0
[pid 13026] mmap(0xdbb0000, 61440, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 15, 0x55000) = 0xdbb0000
[pid 13026] mmap(0xdbbf000, 7908, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xdbbf000
[pid 13026] mprotect(0x3002e000, 1696, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
[pid 13026] mprotect(0x3002e000, 1696, PROT_READ) = 0
[pid 13026] mprotect(0x7fdc9000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
[pid 13026] close(15) = 0
[pid 13026] munmap(0x30161000, 117470) = 0
[pid 13026] rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {0xf055570, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] time(NULL) = 1183183457
[pid 13026] rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {0xdb63bb0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) ---
[pid 13026] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ILL], NULL, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {0xdb63bb0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) ---
[pid 13026] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
[pid 13026] tgkill(13026, 13026, SIGABRT) = 0
[pid 13026] --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
Process 13026 detached
<... read resumed> "", 1) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
close(3) = 0
waitpid(13026, NULL, 0) = 13026
...

~$ apt-cache showpkg liboil0.3
Package: liboil0.3
Versions:
0.3.12-1