waiting for gstreamer?

[Sergey Rudchenko]

On 12/23/2009 5:50 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
> This is slightly off-topic, as it is about F12, not Rawhide.
> However, it's a relatively recent failure in a full-updated D12,
> so it's not *too* far off-topic, I hope!
>
> The problem is that neither amarok nor digikam nor rhythmbox
> will start up. rhythmbox does nothing.  The two KDE application
> (run under Gnome and metacity) will put up a splash screen, and
> then hang.
>
> In the case of digikam it looks like Phonon is waiting on gstreamer,
> based on a gdb stack-trace (with digikam compiled from source):
>
> 0  0x00d1a416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0x007d2f25 in ppoll () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x01f13e41 in gst_poll_wait () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #3  0x01f10ab6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #4  0x01f123b4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #5  0x01f1cfe9 in gst_update_registry () from 
> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #6  0x01ec90d2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #7  0x00e34100 in g_option_context_parse () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #8  0x01ec86fe in gst_init_check () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> #9  0x027b5362 in ?? ()
>    from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so
> #10 0x027b5781 in qt_plugin_instance ()
>    from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so
> #11 0x06133df4 in QPluginLoader::instance() () from 
> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #12 0x07d0e51b in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_platform/kde.so
> #13 0x07d0f791 in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_platform/kde.so
> #14 0x02513ee4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #15 0x02514d83 in Phonon::Factory::backend(bool) ()
>    from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #16 0x0250ec9a in 
> Phonon::GlobalConfig::audioOutputDeviceListFor(Phonon::Category, int) 
> const () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #17 0x0250f500 in 
> Phonon::GlobalConfig::audioOutputDeviceFor(Phonon::Category, int) 
> const () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #18 0x0250a3b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #19 0x0251adeb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #20 0x0251b0f1 in Phonon::VideoPlayer::VideoPlayer(Phonon::Category, 
> QWidget*)
>     () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
> #21 0x082ef06a in Digikam::MediaPlayerView::MediaPlayerView (
>     this=<value optimized out>, parent=<value optimized out>)
>     at 
> /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/mediaplayerview.cpp:107
> #22 0x08279ea0 in Digikam::AlbumWidgetStack::AlbumWidgetStack (
>     this=<value optimized out>, parent=<value optimized out>)
>     at 
> /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/albumwidgetstack.cpp:109
> #23 0x082aee4e in Digikam::DigikamView::DigikamView (
>     this=<value optimized out>, parent=<value optimized out>)
>     at 
> /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/digikamview.cpp:215
> #24 0x08295160 in Digikam::DigikamApp::setupView (this=<value 
> optimized out>)
>     at /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/digikamapp.cpp:493
> #25 0x082a3933 in Digikam::DigikamApp::DigikamApp (this=<value 
> optimized out>,
>     __in_chrg=<value optimized out>, __vtt_parm=<value optimized out>)
>     at /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/digikamapp.cpp:232
> #26 0x083a24fa in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value 
> optimized out>)
>     at /home/bothner/Software/digikam-1.0.0-rc/digikam/main.cpp:172
>
> rhythmbox also hangs in gstreamer.
>
> One data-point which might be relevant: I briefly experimented
> with xmonad (if it had a less steep learning-curve, including
> better mouse support and easier defaults I might have stuck with
> it).  After than the desktop icons are gone, and I can no longer
> open a terminal by right-clicking the desktop (nautilus-open-terminal).
> I'm not sure if the these failures predate or postdate the
> xmonad experiment, but it's possible that switching to xmodad
> might have done something nasty.

Do you use GStreamer codecs from RPMFusion?

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Best regards,
Sergey Rudchenko