When starting gnome-settings-daemon on my AMD64 box with GNOME 2.16, I was getting the error: Could not initialized GStreamer: unknown error occurred After this, gnome-settings-daemon would die and all my settings would revert, making GNOME look ugly and behave brokenly. Re-running the program 4 or 5 times would intermittently fix this problem. This was a problem Gaim had a while back where GStreamer mishandled a case where signal handlers were used to interact with children. It was worked around in Gaim and reported upstream. After quite a bit of research and the discovery of this thread: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/59217 It appears a patch went into gstreamer to fix this problem. Upgrading to gstreamer-0.10.11 fixed this issue completely for me. I am not sure if this issue affects x86. I could only ever reproduce the issue with Gaim on my amd64 box, and I don't run GNOME on any x86 boxes. In any case, I believe it might be worthwhile to consider stabilizing 0.10.11 on amd64 to solve this issue or backporting the patch from the Gnome bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355499
Reassigning to gstreamer herd.
Have any in the herd gotten to this bug yet? Is there any more information I can provide to help out?
(In reply to comment #0) > It appears a patch went into gstreamer to fix this problem. Upgrading to > gstreamer-0.10.11 fixed this issue completely for me. I am not sure if this > issue affects x86. I could only ever reproduce the issue with Gaim on my amd64 > box, and I don't run GNOME on any x86 boxes. > > In any case, I believe it might be worthwhile to consider stabilizing 0.10.11 > on amd64 to solve this issue or backporting the patch from the Gnome bug: 0.10.11 stable per Bug 163541 -> FIXED.
