Bug#307156: running gst-register to fix broken volume control

[josh]

Subject: gnome-media: running gst-register to fix broken volume control
Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.8.0-0.2
Severity: important

There are numerous bugs on gnome-media reporting problems with the
volume and mixer controls, especially after updating.

I recently had the identical problem as reported in bugs #303568 and
#276681, and finally resolved it by removing my ~/.gstreamer-0.?
directories and rebuilding them by running gst-register-0.6 and
gst-register-0.8 (which are in the libgstreamer0.? packages). After
this, the volume and mixer controls worked correctly.

Interestingly, only users who already had accounts had this
problem. When new users are added, their gstreamer registries are
generated correctly, so the problem is with old gstreamer registries
not getting updated, and of course, there's nothing that notifies you
that you need to do this.

-j


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [g 0.8.8-2             ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-artsd [ 0.8.8-2             aRtsd plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-esd [gs 0.8.8-2             Enlightened Sound Daemon
plugin fo
ii  gstreamer0.8-jack [g 0.8.8-2             JACK plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc    0.8.8-2             Collection of various
GStreamer pl
ii  gstreamer0.8-oss [gs 0.8.8-2             OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-5             Open-source version of
SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-21        GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii  libesd0              0.2.35-2            Enlightened Sound Daemon -
Shared
ii  libgail-common       1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility
Implementation
ii  libgail17            1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility
Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.0-11            LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0    0.4.1-1             GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual
file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-13           GNU TLS library - runtime
library
ii  libgpg-error0        1.0-1               library for common error
values an
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0. 0.8.8-2             GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer-plugins 0.8.8-2             Various GStreamer libraries
and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0    0.8.9-2             Core GStreamer libraries,
plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62            6b-9                The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.1-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session
Management
ii  libtasn1-2           0.2.10-3            Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol
client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-4            GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-3           compression library - runtime

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