Bug#788708: iceweasel: GStreamer causes segmentation fault

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2015-11-09 at 18:45 +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> Hi, gstreamer plugins maintainers
> 
> I have unarchived this bug report to add more info on it. Not yet
> reopened it for jessie because I am not fully sure that is is the one
> to blame.
> 
> I  am having some problems in jessie similar to those reported in
> this
> bug report, although they are not yet as reproducible.
> 
> Using iceweasel=38.4.0esr-1~deb8u1 and
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad+libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0=1.4.4-
> 2.1+b1  I have been finding some problems about iceweasel sudden
> closure. I have build a personal gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad=1.4.4-
> 2.1.0.0+amd1 package including the patch that fixed this problem and
> it seemed to disappear. The reason why I am not yet reopening this
> bug report for jessie is that after reverting to current jessie
> versions (1.4.4-2.1(+b1)) I am not reproducing it, so I cannot
> discard that there is something else involved.

That seems weird. Do you happen to have a backtrace of one of these
crashes still, ideally with debug symbols?

> Adding this info here in case anyone else is finding this problem in
> jessie. If so, a jessie point upload may be be useful.

If jessie is indeed affected by this issue, we should backport the fix.
Would be good to know :)
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