Bug#869503: Totem Player Segmentation Fault on Start Up (Debian 9)

[Jason Crain]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 08:43:47PM -0400, Aaron Valdes wrote:
> gdb totem
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> Reading symbols from totem...Reading symbols
> from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/76/c73577645ba60270eb0d6919647d36862f01c7.debug...done.
> done.
> (gdb) thread apply all bt
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/totem 
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0xb16f1b40 (LWP 7133)]
> [New Thread 0xb0ef0b40 (LWP 7134)]
> [New Thread 0xb02ffb40 (LWP 7135)]
> 
> (totem:7129): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to register application: Timeout
> was reached
> [Thread 0xb02ffb40 (LWP 7135) exited]
> [Thread 0xb0ef0b40 (LWP 7134) exited]
> [Thread 0xb16f1b40 (LWP 7133) exited]
> [Inferior 1 (process 7129) exited normally]

You've run totem inside of gdb correctly, but to get a good backtrace
you'll need to first 'run' totem, get it to crash, and then do 'bt' or
'thread apply all bt'.  Only then will the backtrace say what totem was
doing when it crashed.  Were you having trouble getting totem to crash
while in the debugger?