Bug 370487 – media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 hangs on check for GStreamer playbin2 plugin

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Trevor Bowen 2011-06-07 16:55:35 UTC]

In trying to update my system, I have noticed a recent update to totem has been hanging the shell indefinitely, although I can Ctrl+C out of the emerge.

# emerge -uDNpvt1 media-video/totem

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ~] media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 [2.32.0-r1] USE="bluetooth iplayer lirc nsplugin python upnp youtube -debug -doc -galago -nautilus (-tracker)" 0 kB

# emerge -uDN1 media-video/totem
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2
 * totem-2.32.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                        [ ok ]
 * totem-2.32.0-patches.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                [ ok ]
 * Package:    media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2
 * Repository: gentoo
 * Maintainer: [e-mail] [e-mail],[e-mail]
 * USE:        amd64 bluetooth elibc_glibc iplayer kernel_linux lirc multilib nsplugin python upnp userland_GNU youtube
 * FEATURES:   preserve-libs sandbox
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking totem-2.32.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work
>>> Unpacking totem-2.32.0-patches.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work/totem-2.32.0 ...
 * Fixing OMF Makefiles ...                                                                    [ ok ]
...
configure: creating ./config.lt
config.lt: creating libtool
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
checking for glib-mkenums... /usr/bin/glib-mkenums
checking whether to enable easy codec installation support... yes
checking for MISSING_PLUGINS... yes
checking for GST... yes
checking GStreamer 0.10 inspection tool... yes
checking GStreamer 0.10 playbin2 plugin... 

And, there it hangs indefinitely.  Checking the running processes, I find:

# ps -ef | grep -i gst
root     12464 10484  0 11:48 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/bin/gst-inspect-0.10 playbin2
root     12465 12464  2 11:48 pts/2    00:00:02 /usr/libexec/gstreamer-0.10/gst-plugin-scanner -l

Using sudo did not help.  (It hangs for regular user too.)  And, I verified that dbus has a machine id:

# cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
12345646550110912d689e1747654321

I re-emerged all my gst plug-ins too:

# emerge -1 `qlist -I gst-plugins -C`

What am I missing?


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Trevor Bowen 2011-06-07 16:56:54 UTC]

Created attachment 276159 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2011-06-11 10:00:52 UTC]

How are you becoming root? Are you running "su" or "su -"? Have you tried to merge it from a console login in as root directly?

[Comment 3 Trevor Bowen 2011-06-11 14:51:19 UTC]

I tried both (su -, and sudo).  I normally use a root console, but some claimed that sudo made a difference on similar bugs, so I just wanted to rule it out.

The problem actually went away with a recent emerge.  I suspect the fix was in the new dbus release, but here's the emerge bundle that fixed the problem for me:

1307539910:  >>> emerge (1 of 13) net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1 to /
1307539930:  >>> emerge (2 of 13) sys-apps/dbus-1.4.10 to /
1307539978:  >>> emerge (3 of 13) dev-util/boost-build-1.42.0 to /
1307540002:  >>> emerge (4 of 13) sys-fs/udev-168-r2 to /
1307540030:  >>> emerge (5 of 13) net-libs/c-client-2007e-r2 to /
1307540061:  >>> emerge (6 of 13) dev-libs/boost-1.42.0-r2 to /
1307540452:  >>> emerge (7 of 13) net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.4.0-r1 to /
1307540532:  >>> emerge (8 of 13) sys-power/upower-0.9.11-r1 to /
1307540554:  >>> emerge (9 of 13) net-libs/neon-0.29.6 to /
1307540585:  >>> emerge (10 of 13) net-print/hplip-3.11.5 to /
1307540646:  >>> emerge (11 of 13) kde-base/solid-4.6.3 to /
1307540729:  >>> emerge (12 of 13) gnome-base/gvfs-1.6.7 to /
1307540771:  >>> emerge (13 of 13) media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 to /

udev and gvfs also changed at the same time, and they may have had an influence.

I don't know which of these 12 packages fixed the problem, but at least one of them did fix it for me.

Feel free to close, even though I don't know the exact root cause.

Thanks!  :)

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2011-06-11 15:22:40 UTC]

Will close for now then, remember that "su -" is preferred over "su" ;)