| Summary: | crash immediately or within a few seconds of beginning to play an .avi opened through gui | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] phonon-backend-gstreamer | Reporter: | Rob D <Robert.M.Davies> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Harald Sitter <sitter> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | crash | CC: | martin.sandsmark, myriam, romain.perier, tdfischer |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 4.5.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Rob D
2012-06-16 23:14:46 UTC
Sorry, but your backtrace lacks debugging symbols. Please install those and provide a better backtrace. See also http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports Hmm... The KDE Crash Handler seems to think the backtrace is useful. I note there are some functions marked as '??' - importantly the function immediately before the crash, though I have no idea how to find the appropriate debugging symbols for this function. I have installed all the debug packages I could find for gstreamer, phonon and kdemultimedia. Any suggestions where I might find the debug packages? Also: I discovered something slightly suspect while checking which packages I have - I have the package phonon version 4:4.7.0really4.5.0-3ubuntu4+nopulse2. Is this normal and healthy for a kubuntu install? I can't seem to find a version for my architecture that doesn't have the '+nopulse2' suffix. I fear this may be related to the 'KXStudio Team' ppa which I once had in my software sources. I have since removed it again, but don't know how to establish if any packages remain from that repository, and how to purge them if necessary. You should install the debugging symbols for gstreamer and the phonon-backend-gstreamer. In Kubuntu these are the pacakges you need: phonon-backend-gstreamer-dbg phonon-dbg libgstreamer*-dbg (where * stands for the version numbers and names of the gstreamer modules you have installed) As for the backend version: I don't know if you have the kubuntu-backports PPA activated which contains the latest versions available for your distribution version, but you should have at least version 4.5.1 in Kubuntu 11.10. You should indeed not have the nopulse suffix in these packages, so maybe an update of the kubuntu PPAs would be a good idea, those should override other versions. Hello, I just wanted to apologise - I foolishly installed some weird hacked version of phonon from a ppa perhaps more than a year ago. I didn't have any problems for quite some months after I installed it, and forgot that I wasn't using the official version. Then the problem started a few months back. When looking through my installed packages today, I discovered the version seemed odd. I've just reverted to the official ubuntu package and it now seems to have fixed the bug, making this report invalid. The lesson is not to work from bodged 3rd-party packages. I'm sorry to have taken up your time, Rob |