Bug#465171: more info

Thomas Bushnell BSG tb at becket.net
Fri Feb 29 04:15:51 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 22:03 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 23:38 -0500, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > Upon further experimentation, the crash only happens if the audio device
> > cannot be opened.  This often happens for me if a java web app has
> > played sound first, because my java grabs audio.
> > 
> > It used to be that in such a circumstance rhythmbox would report an
> > error.  Now it crashes badly.  So this it's still a bug, and a
> > regression.  But it could sensibly be marked important instead of grave
> > since it isn't as much a show-stopper as it seemed at first.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you sure this isn't a GStreamer bug? In other words, does it happen
> with other GStreamer based apps too?
> 
> Also, this part of the backtrace looks interesting, do you still get the
> crash if you remove bluez-audio?

As of more recent updates, it now fails in a somewhat more sensible way,
giving a little "no entry" bar on the track as if the file went missing.
I think that's still bad, but I wouldn't mind if the bug was closed.

Thomas








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