Emerging media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.20 with FEATURES="test" yields the following test failure: Running suite(s): subparse 93%: Checks: 15, Failures: 1, Errors: 0 elements/subparse.c:241:F:general:test_sami:0: 'g_list_length (buffers)' (1) is not equal to 'num' (2) FAIL: elements/subparse Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo_dazuko-patch-r7-stable x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo_dazuko-patch-r7-stable x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/bin/mygenkernel /usr/sbin/run-crons /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/home/ftp/binpkg/" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=500" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/alon-barlev /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/synce /usr/portage/local/modified /usr/portage/local/own" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrr amrwb apm async audacious audiofile bash-completion berkdb bindist bl bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cardbus cdinstall cjk cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups dbus dga directfb divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode evo exif expat extensions fam fbcon fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gedit gif gimp glade glibc-omitfp glitz gmedia gmp gnutls gphoto2 gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hddtemp hdf5 iconv icq icu idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib iproute2 isdnlog jack java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kerberos keyscrub kpathsea laptop latex lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libv4l2 libwww live lm_sensors logrotate loop-aes lzo mad memlimit midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nls nntp nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp opensslcrypto pam pch pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl plotutils png posix ppds pppd print python quicktime readline realmedia reflection rtsp ruby rubytests samba sasl sdl server session simplexml slang sndfile soap sockets sou speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 stream suhosin svg swat sysfs syslog tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi winbind wma wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xanim xine xinetd xml xorg xpm xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel mpu401" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="fuji ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse ps2mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
The same failure here with media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.21. # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-i686-AMD_Phenom-tm-_8450_Triple-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --jobs 2 --load-average 2.00" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://src.gentoo.pl/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amarok apache2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cisco cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz gphoto2 gpm gstreamer hal htmlhandbook iconv ieee1394 inotify irmc isdnlog jabber java java5 javascript jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kipi ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mime mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mtp mudflap musepack ncurses network networkmanager njb nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline realmedia reflection samba sdl semantic-desktop session solver spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb utempter vcd videos vnc vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xattr xcomposite xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" NETBEANS_MODULES="*" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="none radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed upstream in gst-plugins-base 0.10.22 Upstream bug report : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557365
0.10.22 is in the tree