gstreamer-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup()

Bug #199577 reported by Christoph Langner
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME media utilities
Expired
Critical
gnome-media (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-media

gstreamer-properties crashes when testing the video device:

$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
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 'esdmon'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

toff@isleofskye:~$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
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 'esdmon'

ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpegcolorspace.so

Please either:
- remove it and restart.
- run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug.

toff@isleofskye:~$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
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 'esdmon'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Using a Hauppage WinTV TV card and a Philips PCVC740K USB Webcam.

$ lspci | grep Multi
01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0471:0311 Philips PCVC740K ToUcam Pro [pwc]

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 7 19:47:02 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gstreamer-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-media 2.20.1-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gstreamer-properties
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-media
StacktraceTop:
 g_hash_table_lookup ()
 g_quark_from_string ()
 gst_structure_empty_new ()
 gst_structure_new_valist ()
 gst_structure_new ()
Title: gstreamer-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner staff users vboxusers video
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f6d7ced78c0 <g_hash_table_lookup+96>: cmp 0x18(%rdx),%ebp
 PC (0x7f6d7ced78c0) ok
 source "0x18(%rdx)" (0x00000017) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ebp" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA

Tags: apport-crash
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Christoph Langner (chrissss) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:IA__g_quark_from_string (string=0x7f6d7e6af2fd "GstMessageState")
gst_structure_empty_new (name=0x7f6d7e6af2fd "GstMessageState") at gststructure.c:184
gst_structure_new_valist (name=0x7f6d7e6af30b "e", firstfield=0x7f6d7e6af20d "old-state",
gst_structure_new (name=0x7f6d7e6af30b "e", firstfield=0x7f6d7e6af2fd "GstMessageState")
gst_message_new_state_changed (src=0x7babf0, oldstate=GST_STATE_NULL, newstate=GST_STATE_READY,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
Changed in gnome-media:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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boreasnyx (boreasnyx) wrote :

Bug #115080 seems to deal with a similar issue and may provide a solution.

Nyx

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Ashwin (cybernytrix) wrote :

I have the same problem. I ran it with GST_DEBUG=3. Please check the attachment.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532866

Changed in gnome-media:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-media:
status: Unknown → New
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mr.blakjack (mr-blakjack) wrote :

Gstreamers-properties crashes when i has testing my web cam on vaio sony with my drivers r5u870, it crashes when i selected v4l2 and selected my video device input, if i select v4l and select my video device input it doesn't crash.

Kees Cook (kees)
description: updated
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Upstream need a full backtrace with all gstreamer threads on it, could somebody having the issue install the dbgsym packages for the gstreamer packages they're using and get a new backtrace? thanks.

Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in gnome-media:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: New → Expired
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