[apport] totem-video-thumbnailer crashed with SIGSEGV in decode_mb_cavlc()

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Binary package hint: totem

Description of the problem:
The gnome thumbnailer crashed while trying to thumbnail a file (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/99341 ) which was still downloading. See Bug #99341 for further details.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Mar 31 09:54:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.18.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-video-thumbnailer -s 128 file:///home/sits/Desktop/spolsky.mp4 /tmp/.gnome_thumbnail.C393PT
ProcCwd: /home/sits
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: totem
StacktraceTop:
 decode_mb_cavlc (h=0xb5b8f020) at h264.c:5612
 decode_slice (h=0xde8) at h264.c:7501
 decode_nal_units (h=0xb5b8f020, buf=0x8286058 "",
 decode_frame (avctx=0x8212200, data=0x80ee2e0,
Uname: Linux galvatron 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

That URI should have been http://media1.podtech.net/download.php?file=media/2007/03/PID_010739/Podtech_Joel_Spolsky_interview.mp4

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424809

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[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Sounds like this launchpad bug should be closed fixed...

[Prosthetic Head (propanone)]

Several bugs I'm on the list for have been retrospectively marked as 'Critical' after being closed as fixed. There may be a good reason for this in each case, but given that several of them had no priority set or were a lower priority and had been left unsolved for quite some time it does look suspiciously like skewing of statistics. ('we've fixed X critical bugs' or 'we fixed 97% of all critical bugs', etc., except that they weren't critical until after they were fixed)

As I said, there may be a very good reason which I've missed or it could be coincidence. I also apologise for posting this here as it may not be the most appropriate place to raise such concerns, but I have no idea of anywhere else more appropriate.