Bug 51946 – Totem crashes while launching, running gnome 2.6

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wayne Oliver 2004-05-24 14:14:45 UTC]

When I start it the application window is displayed for a second and
then it closes with the following error.

+-------------------------------+
|           Error               |
+-------------------------------+
|     Totem could not startup.  |
| X   No reason.                |
|                               |
+-------------------------------+

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run totem from the gnome menu
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I receive an error message:

Totem could not startup.
No reason.

Expected Results:  
Totem should have started and been usable

Linux it-03 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 #1 Sat May 15 00:23:19 SAST 2004 i686 Pentium III
(Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla
mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime
readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype video_cards_i810 x86 xml
xml2 xmms xv zlib"

running xorg-x11, gnome-2.6 and not much else.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-05-25 01:58:06 UTC]

rebuild totem & it's backend with debugging info & get a backtrace from the crash.

What totem are you talking about exactly & what is your 'emerge info' (always provide this, read the bugreport form carefully !) ?

[Comment 2 Kirtis Bakalarczyk 2004-06-19 19:30:45 UTC]

I have this problem also.  This is with totem-0.99.8-r2. running totem from the command line reaveals the following error: 
INFO ( 4353: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.4
INFO ( 4353: 0) CPU features: (00000000) MMX SSE
INFO ( 4353: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.116998 seconds
          (/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.6/registry.xml)

** (totem:4353): WARNING **: No GConf default audio sink key and osssink doesn't work
** Message: failed to render default audio sink from gconf

I'm not entirely sure what's causing that, but i don't think totem itself is crashing.  Hope that helps, emerge info below..

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora truetype x86 xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 3 Wayne Oliver 2004-06-21 01:03:54 UTC]

I found the problem to be a sound setup issue.