Bug#769941: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0: Iceweasel crashes with "gst_app_src_set_size: assertion 'GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed"

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Di, 2014-11-18 at 11:37 +0000, George B. wrote:
> On 18/11/14 09:22, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > I assume it first started to appear when
> > upgrading from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 yesterday?
> 
> I noticed it with GMail yesterday, but I haven't used that for a long time (I usually connect via Icedove).
> 
> I did note a crash at some point last week on some other random website - that time I just ignored it, but it is possible it was related.
> 
> > Can you always reproduce it
> > when logging in on GMail? Which version of iceweasel are you using?
> > It does not crash for me unfortunately.
> 
> I can always reproduce it, providing I have media.gstreamer.enabled = true in about:config. If set to false false - no crash.
> 
> Iceweasel version is 33.1 (from experimental)
> 
> > If you can always reproduce it, could you run iceweasel in valgrind
> > (don't forget to install valgrind-dbg)? Set G_SLICE=always-malloc in the
> > environment and run valgrind with --track-origins=yes and
> > --trace-children=yes
> 
> Unfortunately valgrind never gets to fully load the login page (exits with "Killed"). I used:
> 
> valgrind --track-origins=yes --trace-children=yes --error-limit=no iceweasel -safe-mode
> 
> I attach the STDERR log, but I'm not sure how useful that will be since there is no mention of gstreamer there.

Not very useful :) But thanks!

Can you check if the crash goes away if you downgrade some of the
GStreamer packages to 1.4.3, and if so which one makes the difference?
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