Bug 292584 - akregator crashes on a post containing a <video> tag with a webm file
Summary: akregator crashes on a post containing a <video> tag with a webm file
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: akregator
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7.2
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2012-01-27 13:24 UTC by gabriele monfardini
Modified: 2012-01-31 18:26 UTC (History)
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Description gabriele monfardini 2012-01-27 13:24:37 UTC 
Version:           4.7.2 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

Akregator crashes on the following blog post

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/linuxcon-kernel-panel.html

that contains a <video> tag with a webm file

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add the blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20
2. preview the item "Kernel hackers panel" (2011/11/07)


Actual Results:  
akregator crashes (in my system without producing an useful stack trace and without finding debug packages to install)

Expected Results:  
The article is previewed (eventually without the video if <video> tag support is missing)

I'm using akregator and kde from kubuntu-backports ppa
Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2012-01-31 16:28:58 UTC 
> Version:           4.7.2 (using KDE 4.8.0) 

There's an installation issue. the Akregator version should also be 4.8.0
Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2012-01-31 16:33:27 UTC 
Can't reproduce with the khtml nor the webkit engine. 

Please fix your installation and retry
Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2012-01-31 16:33:52 UTC 
(and make sure you don't use the phonon-xine backend)
Comment 4 gabriele monfardini 2012-01-31 16:51:59 UTC 
>There's an installation issue. the Akregator version should also be 4.8.0
>Please fix your installation and retry

This is happened the same day I upgrade to kde 4.8.0, thus akregator incorrectly reported 4.7.2 but was indeed updated to version 4.8.0.

After rebooting akregator version is 4.8.0, so nothing to fix.

> (and make sure you don't use the phonon-xine backend)

I switched to phonon-gstreamer backend and this indeed solves the issue.
Could you please point me to extra information regarding phonon-xine issue (or if there is some criteria to choose the backend)?
Comment 5 Christophe Marin 2012-01-31 18:26:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> I switched to phonon-gstreamer backend and this indeed solves the issue.
> Could you please point me to extra information regarding phonon-xine issue (or
> if there is some criteria to choose the backend)?


The phonon-xine backend is unmaintained and unsupported since months as announced a few months ago: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-announce&m=130744384419151

All recent crashes involving the phonon+xine combinaison are now closed as 'unmaintained'