Bug#578476: Crashes when a broken GStreamer plugin is installed

2013-12-22 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Marcos Marado wrote (02 Jul 2013 10:33:19 GMT) : I had pidgin running without problems on squeeze, but after dist-upgrading to wheezy I've run into this problem. Confirmed on a fresh Wheezy installation with these GStreamer bits installed: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gconf

Bug#578476: Crashes when a broken GStreamer plugin is installed

2010-04-21 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:02 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: severity 578476 important thanks I don't consider using the public API of gstreamer in a non-broken way to mean that pidgin is doing anything wrong here. Comment from the source explaining why they were originally catching/disabling

Bug#578476: Crashes when a broken GStreamer plugin is installed

2010-04-20 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Package: pidgin Severity: serious Hi, pidgin currently crashes when a broken GStreamer plugin is installed, e.g. if this plugin crashes on initialization. See bug #573269 for an example. This only affects pidgin because the pidgin developers decided for some reason, that the GStreamer registry

Bug#578476: Crashes when a broken GStreamer plugin is installed

2010-04-20 Thread Ari Pollak
severity 578476 important thanks I don't consider using the public API of gstreamer in a non-broken way to mean that pidgin is doing anything wrong here. Comment from the source explaining why they were originally catching/disabling forking: /* By default, gstreamer forks when you initialize it,