Bugzilla Bug 121932

I recently started having problems with GStreamer 0.8 on my Gentoo Linux (~x86)
notebook. Installing gst-plugins-* packages resulted in

  ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstvideotestsrc.so

errors and GStreamer-related applications like Totem stopped working. Zaheer
suggested downgrading liboil, but this did not help.

Since I was using GCC 4.1 I decided to do a clean install with GCC 3.4.5 (the
current ~x86 version of GCC) and use GStreamer 0.10. I seem to have the same
problem still:

  sb@wopr-mobile ~ % gstreamer-properties
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'autoaudiosink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'alsasink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdsink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'osssink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'polypsink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'autovideosink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sdlvideosink'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lsrc'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4l2src'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'alsasrc'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'osssrc'
  gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'polypsrc'

Totem does not work, either.


I have installed GStreamer 0.10 using the package.masked packages in portage
and GNOME 2.13 from the official GNOME/SVN overlay on a fresh install of Gentoo
Linux (~x86).


Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2,
2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox
sfperms sign strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlay/gnome"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonjour browserplugin
bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode
exif fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran galago gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww lzo mad matroska
mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg
ncurses nls nomotif nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pam_console pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline spell sse sse2 ssl
svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis
win32codecs wmf xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux
linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

Looks like GStreamer 0.10 is not segfaulting after all. Part of my problem was
solved by manually installing media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa, which seems to
not being pulled in automatically anymore.

Testing audio and video in gstreamer-properties now works, too.

Playback of XviD movies in Totem still does not work, but I am closing this bug
as INVALID anyhow. Sorry for the noise.