Bug#799632: Bug#788708: Bug#799632: iceweasel: SIGSEGV when playing videos via gstreamer

[Agustin Martin]

2015-11-12 16:13 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Dröge <slomo at coaxion.net>:
> On Do, 2015-11-12 at 15:35 +0100, Soeren D. Schulze wrote:
>> Am 12.11.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Sebastian Dröge:
>> > On Do, 2015-11-12 at 14:41 +0100, Soeren D. Schulze wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > the problem does not seem to occur any more with
>> > > gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 1.6.1-1+b1 and iceweasel 38.4.0esr-1.
>> > >
>> > > Do you have any specific packages for me to test?
>> >
>> > Just a normal jessie installation without installing things from
>> > other
>> > sources, including sid :) It is definitely fixed since gst-plugins-
>> > bad
>> > 1.5.X, it's just not clear if the actual bug also exists in jessie
>> > or
>> > not (and if it doesn't, the fix will also have no effect for people
>> > who
>> > mix their packages with ones from other sources).
>>
>> I believe so.  I have had symptomatically similar crashes on two
>> different jessie systems, but I had not installed debugging symbols,
>> and it's hard to reproduce those crashes at command.
>
> It should crash always more or less immediately when you visit a
> website with AAC audio. Vimeo for example :)

I  am again in the problematic box and tried today with
http://www.vimeo.com. No failure, so I am a bit confused. Last weekend
I had a systematic failure when browsing facebook, but today it seems
to work well.

As a side note, this box has an onboard nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics
engine, known to have serious problems with jessie's kernel, including
system freezes (see e.g. #758460), with some apparent connection with
iceweasel. As a matter of fact I am running sid kernel here to
mitigate that.

This means that there is a good alternative candidate for my iceweasel
failures. I still wonder why after installing plugins-bad with that
change the iceweasel+facebook crash disappeared, but since after
reverting gstreamer-plugins-bad packages to those shipped with jessie
the problem was still gone, I do not think gstreamer-plugins-bad
packages can be clearly blamed for my iceweasel crashes.

I will keep an eye on this and try to get a backtrace if crashes
reappear, but for now I think this
#788708 bug report can be allowed to be archived once the two
iceweasel asociated bug reports (#797385  and #799632) are reassigned
and closed/forcemerged properly.

Thanks a lot for your feedback,

-- 
Agustin