Comment 12 for bug 213053

I ran in the same problem.
Ubuntu 8.04
totem 2.22.1
gstreamer 0.10.18

The process hang when I tried to exit totem while playing a movie.
Video stream:
  DivX MPEG-4 Version 5
  512 x 384
Audio stream:
  MPEG 1 Audio, Layer 3
  Stereo
  44100 Hz
  96 kbps

Killing with kill -9 did not work. The played file was a local file on a ext3 formatted drive. IMHO I think the problem is somewhere in the device driver either ext3 or in the block driver itself. However dmesg and all log files do not reveal any additional information. Therefore I assume no detectable crash or error happened.

Another possible problem could be associated with the audio or video output. The audio is controlled by pulseaudio on my system and the sound events still worked after totem got into this interruptible state. Therefore I assume the video-output (xv) can also be guilty part.

Because it is so hard to reproduce the bug (I just had this problem twice in the last weeks), I guess it is some sort of race condition.

The kernel is: Linux helsinki 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

For more information have a look at the lsmod, lspci and xorg.conf

Maybe some can come up with a way to reproduce this bug with this information.