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.
