Totem could not startup.

[Lucas Benninger]

WORKAROUND:
Remove the Gstreamer cache files:
rm -f ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.*
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858538#c1]

DESCRIPTION:
When Launching Totem, it displays a window saying:

  Totem could not startup.
  Some necessary plug-ins are missing. Make sure that the program is correctly installed.

So I launched it from the terminal in hopes of recieving a more detailed message for reporting and I recieved the following message:

  $ totem

  ** (totem:13625): WARNING **: Element 'cluttersink' is missing, verify your installation

  (totem:13625): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone
called g_object_unref() on an object that had only a floating
reference; the initial floating reference is not owned by anyone
and must be removed with g_object_ref_sink().

Additional Information:
Ubuntu Release:
Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04
uname -a:
Linux lucas-Inspiron-5520 3.8.0-1-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 18 15:23:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Package details
totem:
  Installed: 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-1.5-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 23 18:03:32 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-16 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-23 (0 days ago)

[Adam (adam-redhat-bugs)]

As per summary. Current F18 with updates-testing. Console output:

[adamw@adam Downloads]$ totem

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpng.so': /lib64/libgstvideo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdebug.so': /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdebug.so: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstspeex.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstrtpmux.so': /lib64/libgstrtp-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstossaudio.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstsegmentclip.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvideomixer.so': /lib64/libgstvideo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstequalizer.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstgdp.so': /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstgdp.so: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstalaw.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstadder.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlevel.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfragmented.so': /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfragmented.so: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstsoundtouch.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_query_has_scheduling_mode_with_flags

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstshm.so': /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstshm.so: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_map

(gst-plugin-scanner:31454): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstflac.so': /lib64/libgsttag-1.0.so.0: unde...

[Adam (adam-redhat-bugs)]

elad suggested:

rm -f ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.*

that fixes the problem, totem now runs. but obviously, you shouldn't have to do that manually.

[Adam (adam-redhat-bugs)]

So in case it helps...

When I first updated from f17 to f18, with yum, I had to remove totem to make the transaction complete, there were dep issues at the time.

I only re-installed totem yesterday, and ran it right away and hit the bug. The transaction to install totem installed these packages:

totem-1:3.5.90-2.fc18.x86_64
clutter-gst2-1.9.90-1.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0.11.94-1.fc18.x86_64

I had gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good installed already, as deps of Rhythmbox: they were installed on Sep 4. I had to update gstreamer1-plugins-base right before the totem install, as it was out of date and conflicting with gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.

[Adam (adam-redhat-bugs)]

It also turns out I updated gstreamer1 from 0.11.93 to 0.11.94 between the failed and successful runs, which we think is the problem.

<elad> clutter-gst2 and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free needs to depend on gstreamer1 >= 0.11.93-1

[Elad (elad-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It also turns out I updated gstreamer1 from 0.11.93 to 0.11.94 between the
> failed and successful runs, which we think is the problem.
>
> <elad> clutter-gst2 and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free needs to depend on
> gstreamer1 >= 0.11.93-1
my mistake here, I meant
gstreamer1 >= 0.11.94-1
which is obviously the newer version

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[Matthias (matthias-redhat-bugs)]

totem 3.6.0 installs nicely here, and only depends on gstreamer 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Same here. gstreamer1.0-clutter and libclutter-gst-2.0-0 are installed (via dependencies).

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Just found out this:

gst-inspect-1.0 -b
Blacklisted files:
  libgstclutter.so

Total count: 1 blacklisted file

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Not seeing anything interesting after:

rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry*
GST_DEBUG=2,GST_PLUGIN_LOADING:5,GST_REGISTRY:5 gst-inspect-1.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstclutter.so &> debug

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Just happened to test that this is not an issue on guest account. So it's about my settings, and possibly therefore a quantal -> raring migration problem. However, I haven't so far found where the problem is, after trying to delete/reset all the Totem and GStreamer .config/.local files and gconf+dconf keys I've found.

[Edwin (edwin-v)]

Just had this after upgrading to ubuntu 13.04.

After deleting all configuration/cache files in my homedirectory, it started again and first asked to install "gstreamer1.0-libav". I suppose this one should have come with the upgrade.

[Olivier (olivier-redhat-bugs)]

I had the same problem on my F18 (also had many problems when switching from F17 to F18).
Especially, I had the following:
** (totem:31451): WARNING **: Element 'cluttersink' is missing, verify your installation

(totem:31451): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone
called g_object_unref() on an object that had only a floating
reference; the initial floating reference is not owned by anyone
and must be removed with g_object_ref_sink().

I also ran, as elad suggested (thanks to him :):
rm -f ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.*

and now it works fine!

[Beowulf (s-highlander)]

I have the same problem, after upgrading to 13.04 Totem doesn' start saying 'Some necessary plug-ins are missing. Make sure that the program is correctly installed'.

[Beowulf (s-highlander)]

I confirm that rm -r ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0 is the fix.

[Roberto Mantovani (me-robertomantovani)]

rm -r ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0 and now totem work!

[Helder (he7d3r)]

Same problem and same solution after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Same problem after upgrade to 13.10 but none of the proposed solutions work.

Deleting the gstreamer cache only gives me an extra error about setting GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER

This is the output I usually get from totem (don't worry about the theme warnings):

:~$ totem

(totem:28893): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown key gtk-decoration-layout in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

(totem:28893): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown key decoration-layout in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

(totem:28893): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown key gtk-decoration-layout in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

(totem:28893): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown key decoration-layout in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

** (totem:28893): CRITICAL **: bacon_video_widget_has_previous_track: assertion 'BACON_IS_VIDEO_WIDGET (bvw)' failed

** (totem:28893): CRITICAL **: bacon_video_widget_has_next_track: assertion 'BACON_IS_VIDEO_WIDGET (bvw)' failed

** (totem:28893): WARNING **: Element 'playbin' is missing, verify your installation

** (totem:28893): WARNING **: Element 'audioconvert' is missing, verify your installation

** (totem:28893): WARNING **: Element 'scaletempo' is missing, verify your installation

** (totem:28893): WARNING **: Element 'autoaudiosink' is missing, verify your installation

(totem:28893): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone
called g_object_unref() on an object that had only a floating
reference; the initial floating reference is not owned by anyone
and must be removed with g_object_ref_sink().

All of those plugins are installed for gstreamer0.10 AND gstreamer1.0.