Bug#311720: gnomemeeting crashes with a segmentation fault when using v4l2 (default setting)

[Jason Cohen]

Package: gnomemeeting
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: normal


 I setup gnomemeeting with the default settings for my webcam. I have a
 Phillips Quickcam 3000 Pro and I built the pwc driver using the
 qc-usb-source package. v4l2 was selected by default, and I was able to
 successfully run all tests for audio & video. At first I was able to
 see a horizontal and vertical red &green lines. When i restarted
 gnomemeeting I immediately began getting the segmentation faults.
 
 The exact error is : lib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x724)!
 		      Segmentation fault
 
 This error apparently was caused by the use of v4l2 which have been
 told is an experimental and unstable package. What I don't understand is
 why this was chosen by default. After uninstalling libpt-plugins-v4l2
 the segmentation faults stopped and I was able to successfully
 setup gnomemeeting with v4l. The video is perfect just as it was in
 camstream. Shouldn't the user at least be warned that v4l2 is unstable,
 and why isn't v4l used as the default? Doesn't it work with most
 webcams?
 
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnomemeeting depends on:
ii  gconf2        2.8.1-6                    GNOME configuration database syste
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 0.2.6-6                    Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0  2.8.1-2                    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2- 2.8.1-2                    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6         2.3.2.ds1-22               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libebook8     1.0.4-1                    Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserve 1.0.4-1                    Utily library for evolution data s
ii  libesd0       0.2.35-2                   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgcc1       1:3.4.3-13                 GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4   2.8.1-6                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.6.4-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0   2.8.1-2                    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanva 2.8.0-1                    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.8.1-3                    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2- 2.8.4-4                    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.6.4-3                    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6       4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libldap2      2.1.30-8                   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libopenh323-1 1.15.3-2                   H.323 aka VoIP library
ii  liborbit2     1:2.12.2-1                 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  libpt-1.8.3   1.8.4-1                    Portable Windows Library
ii  libpt-plugins 1.8.4-1                    Portable Windows Library Audio Plu
ii  libpt-plugins 1.8.4-1                    PWLib Video Plugin for IEEE1394 (F
ii  libpt-plugins 1.8.4-1                    PWLib Video Plugin for IEEE1394 (F
ii  libpt-plugins 1.8.4-1                    Portable Windows Library Audio Plu
ii  libpt-plugins 1.8.4-1                    Portable Windows Library Video Plu
ii  libsdl1.2debi 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsm6        4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5    1:3.3.5-13                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6      4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2       2.6.16-7                   GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs         4.3.0.dfsg.1-13            X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.2-4                  compression library - runtime

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