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  1. Focal (20.04)
  2. Bug #1914044
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1914044

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Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato) wrote : gstreamer fails with "cannot allocate memory in static TLS block" error on aarch64

[Impact]

gstreamer cannot load some plugins on 20.04, aarch64 due to TLS memory exhaustion, so these plugins cannot be used. See LP#1846837 and LP#1914030.

This is solved apparently on glibc 2.32:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25051
by patch
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=ffb17e7ba3a5ba9632cee97330b325072fbe41dd

[Test Case]

Running totem-video-thumbnailer shows these errors:

(totem-video-thumbnailer:12136): GStreamer-WARNING **: 00:43:52.740: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so': /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1: cannot allocate memory in static TLS block

[Where problems could occur]

This is delicate code in glibc with quite regression potential. Said this, the code is in the next minor release (2.32, while focal has 2.31), which has been running groovy for a while.