Bug#573269: Re: pidgin segfaults upon startup since gst-plugins-bad0.10 version 0.10.18-1

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 12:13 -0400, Benjamin E. Seidenberg wrote:
> wrote:
> > severity 573269 normal
> > thanks
> >
> > Hi,
> > thanks for reporting this bug. This only takes pidgin down because the
> > pidgin developers decided for some reason to deactivate the GStreamer
> > registry updating in a separate process. I filed a new bug against
> > pidgin with a patch to use GStreamer properly and then this crash should
> > be fixed. See bug #578476.
> >
> > This bug here is still a valid bug but not really critical as it doesn't
> > cause any problems if applications use GStreamer properly.
> >
> > It would be nice if someone could get a valgrind log (with
> > --track-origins=yes) of the actual crash with pidgin. Something in the
> > LV2 toolchain corrupts memory and things later crash randomly.
> > Unfortunately I can't reproduce this here, the LV2 plugin works fine for
> > me :(
> >   
> Log attached. Enjoy.

Ok, thanks... unfortunately the segfault is catched by GStreamer and the
application exists cleanly then.

Could you rebuild pidgin with the attached patch and get another
valgrind log?
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Description: Upstream changes introduced in version 2.6.6-2.1
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 pidgin (2.6.6-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
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--- pidgin-2.6.6.orig/pidgin/gtksound.c
+++ pidgin-2.6.6/pidgin/gtksound.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ pidgin_sound_init(void)
 #ifdef GST_CAN_DISABLE_FORKING
 	gst_registry_fork_set_enabled (FALSE);
 #endif
+	gst_segtrap_set_enabled(FALSE);
 	if ((gst_init_failed = !gst_init_check(NULL, NULL, &error))) {
 		purple_notify_error(NULL, _("GStreamer Failure"),
 					_("GStreamer failed to initialize."),
--- pidgin-2.6.6.orig/finch/gntsound.c
+++ pidgin-2.6.6/finch/gntsound.c
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ finch_sound_init(void)
 	 (GST_VERSION_MAJOR == 0 && GST_VERSION_MINOR == 10 && GST_VERSION_MICRO >= 10))
 	gst_registry_fork_set_enabled(FALSE);
 #endif
+	gst_segtrap_set_enabled(FALSE);
 	if ((gst_init_failed = !gst_init_check(NULL, NULL, &error))) {
 		purple_notify_error(NULL, _("GStreamer Failure"),
 					_("GStreamer failed to initialize."),
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