Bug#931687: orca fails to start when creating autoaudiosink

[Bernhard Übelacker]

Package: orca
Version: 3.30.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to triage another bug by using orca
inside a minimal Buster amd64 qemu VM.

On that minimal system I installed just:
    apt install systemd-coredump xserver-xorg sddm plasma-desktop orca

When I tried to start orca in that system I received
this error:

    benutzer at debian:~$ GST_DEBUG=2 orca
    0:00:00.040783971  1024      0x1c45120 WARN     GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:456:gst_element_factory_make: no such element factory "autoaudiosink"!
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
        from orca import orca
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 81, in <module>
        from . import sound
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 163, in <module>
        _player = Player()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 55, in __init__
        self.init()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 123, in init
        self._pipeline.add(self._sink)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gst.py", line 64, in add
        if not Gst.Bin.add(self, arg):
    TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value


sound.py:123
        self._sink = Gst.ElementFactory.make('autoaudiosink', 'output')


Unfortunately this "autoaudiosink" seems to be contained in
libgstautodetect.so which is included in package gstreamer1.0-plugins-good.

After installing gstreamer1.0-plugins-good orca could
be started and also gives audio output.

Would this qualify for a change to orca to suggest
or depend on package gstreamer1.0-plugins-good?

Kind regards,
Bernhard




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages orca depends on:
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.58.3-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.24.5-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.42.4-6
ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0            3.30.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.28.1-1
ii  python3                    3.7.3-1
ii  python3-brlapi             5.6-10
ii  python3-cairo              1.16.2-1+b1
ii  python3-gi                 3.30.4-1
ii  python3-louis              3.8.0-2
ii  python3-pyatspi            2.30.0+dfsg-3
ii  python3-speechd            0.9.0-5
ii  speech-dispatcher          0.9.0-5

Versions of packages orca recommends:
ii  python3-gst-1.0  1.14.4-1+b1
ii  xbrlapi          5.6-10

orca suggests no packages.

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