Totem opens and halts

[ozatomic]

Binary package hint: totem

** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Creating object of type YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Creating object of type BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:9324): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** Message: Error: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument
pulsesink.c(634): gst_pulsesink_prepare (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstBin:abin/GstBin:audiosinkbin/GstGConfAudioSink:audio-sink/GstBin:bin6/GstAutoAudioSink:autoaudiosink1/GstPulseSink:autoaudiosink1-actual-sink-pulse

got this error when running totem from command line. The application hangs and has to be forced quit.

Version: 8.10
totem: Installed: 2.24.3-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[mix0s (mihaliospit)]

I have the same problem, youtube play video without sounds and the start-up sounds playing.

[ozatomic (ozatomic)]

hmm, i did an update yesterday and tried totem again today and it seemed to work fine :( not sure what the problem was.

I will keep an eye on it and report it again if problem reoccurs

[Mr. Anderson (walch-martin)]

A backtrace as described in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash (section 1)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace (section 1)
from within Ubuntustudio 8.10. I tried to play an ogg/theora movie I exported from Kino before.

[Mr. Anderson (walch-martin)]

This time a more useful debug output.

[Mr. Anderson (walch-martin)]

And now the reason for the problem: there was no audio device. I ran Ubuntustudio in VirtualBox and had not activated any audio output device (or rather only the null audio driver). After switching to ALSA everything works fine.

Anyway this should probably better lead not to a stalled program.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

more like a pulseaudio issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.