Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: empathy
I received the following message when the sound capture failed during an
audio call:
There was a failure in the call engine:
Could not link source
The underlying problem turned out to be incorrect configuration of the default
gstreamer source. I had /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc set to "osssrc"
while I did not have OSS installed.
ALSA-based applications worked perfectly so I had no idea why empathy would
fail.
The problem became obvious when I executed the following command: gst-
launch-0.10 gconfaudiosrc ! gconfaudiosink
The output clearly showed what went wrong:
ERROR: from element /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0: Could not open audio device
for recording.
Additional debug info:
gstosssrc.c(379): gst_oss_src_open (): /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0:
Unable to open device /dev/dsp for recording: No such file or directory
I think it would be great if the empathy error "Technical details"
showed this information or at least hint what it was trying to do (open
the "gconfaudiosrc" gstreamer element).
Even a slight modification of the error message could make it vastly more
useful:
"Could not link gstreamer source 'gconfaudiosrc'."
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689426
Title:
Confusing error message when the sound capture fails
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