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

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 15:13 +0200 schrieb 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?

That will be done in gstreamer in one of the next releases. Updating the
registry will take place in a second process and if a plugin fails to
load it will be ignored, without taking down the main process.
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