Bug#519226: [gnome-settings-daemon] robustness?

[Lars]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-2

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Hi,

thanks for discussing the above problem.
The proposed solution (replacing debian-multimedia packages with original
debian packages) solved this serious problem for me. Thanks!


> There isn't much either gnome-settings-daemon or GStreamer can do against
> broken plugins.

Sorry - I don't know the details of neither gstreamer nor gnome-settings-daemon,
but I am surprised, that gnome-settings-daemon/gstreamer is not fault tolerant
when loading a plugin.

Where do you see the source of the problem?
Should gstreamer catch broken plugins and ignore them? Or should
gnome-settings-daemon disable gstreamer in case of its failure?
Or is it just impossible to add robustness here?

thanks for your time,
Lars

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        localhost 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                                  (Version) | Installed
==================================================-+-===============
libart-2.0-2                           (>= 2.3.18) | 2.3.20-2
libatk1.0-0                            (>= 1.20.0) | 1.24.0-2
libaudiofile0                         (>= 0.2.3-4) | 0.2.6-7
libbonobo2-0                           (>= 2.15.0) | 2.24.1-1
libbonoboui2-0                         (>= 2.15.1) | 2.24.1-1
libc6                                   (>= 2.7-1) | 2.9-6
libcairo2                               (>= 1.2.4) | 1.8.6-2+b1
libdbus-1-3                             (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.12-1
libdbus-glib-1-2                         (>= 0.71) | 0.80-3
libesd0                               (>= 0.2.35)  | 0.2.41-2
 OR libesd-alsa0                       (>= 0.2.35) | 
libgconf2-4                            (>= 2.13.5) | 2.24.0-7
libglade2-0                           (>= 1:2.6.1) | 1:2.6.3-1
libglib2.0-0                           (>= 2.16.0) | 2.20.0-2
libgnome-desktop-2                     (>= 2.22.0) | 2.22.3-2
libgnome2-0                            (>= 2.17.3) | 2.24.1-2
libgnomecanvas2-0                      (>= 2.11.1) | 2.20.1.1-1
libgnomekbd2                                       | 2.22.0-2
libgnomeui-0                           (>= 2.17.1) | 2.24.1-1
libgnomevfs2-0                      (>= 1:2.17.90) | 1:2.24.0-3
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0        (>= 0.10.2) | 0.10.22-4
libgstreamer0.10-0                   (>= 0.10.1.2) | 0.10.22-2
libgtk2.0-0                            (>= 2.12.0) | 2.14.7-5
libice6                               (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.5-1
liborbit2                           (>= 1:2.14.10) | 1:2.14.17-0.1
libpango1.0-0                          (>= 1.20.3) | 1.22.4-3
libpopt0                                 (>= 1.14) | 1.14-4
libsm6                                             | 2:1.1.0-2
libstartup-notification0                (>= 0.8-1) | 0.9-1
libxi6                                             | 2:1.2.1-2
libxklavier12                             (>= 3.4) | 3.5-2
libxml2                                (>= 2.6.27) | 2.7.3.dfsg-1
libxrandr2                                (>= 4.3) | 2:1.3.0-2
libxrender1                                        | 1:0.9.4-2
libxxf86misc1                                      | 1:1.0.1-3
gconf2                               (>= 2.10.1-2) | 2.24.0-7
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