Alarm Clock Applet

Crash: Could not create player

Bug #823585 reported by snoxu on 2011-08-09

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Alarm Clock Applet	Fix Released	Medium	Johannes H. Jensen	Alarm Clock Applet 0.3.3 "Squish"
alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Precise	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned
Quantal	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: - 1...
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: alarm() DING!
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: alarm() Repeating...
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: update_timestamp_full: 23:0:0
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: set_timestamp (23, 0, 0, 0)
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Closest WDAY = 3
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm is in 1 days.
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm will trigger at Ter 10 Ago 2011 23:00:00 WEST
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Setting to 1313013600
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: set timestamp=1313013600
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: AlarmApplet: Alarm 'Alarm!' timestamp changed
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: AlarmListWindow alarm_update: 0x6e71b0 (Alarm!)
** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): DEBUG: Alarm(0x6e71b0) #1: alarm() Start player

** (alarm-clock-applet:13079): CRITICAL **: Could not create player.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000409fde in media_player_start ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000409fde in media_player_start ()
#1 0x000000000040c38c in ?? ()
#2 0x00007ffff6f5f1fe in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff6f6f815 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff6f797aa in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff6f79952 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x000000000040b7ba in ?? ()
#7 0x00007ffff7b36b9b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff7b3529d in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00007ffff7b35a78 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff7b360ba in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff75f81a7 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#12 0x0000000000409072 in main ()
(gdb)

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lp:debian/alarm-clock-applet

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-09:

Forgot to mention I'm running Gnome 3 on Archlinux

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-10:

It seems it crashes when trying to play the alarm sound:

(alarm-clock-applet:2323): CRITICAL **: Could not create player.
** (alarm-clock-applet:2323): DEBUG: AlarmSettingsDialog: preview_start...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000409fde in media_player_start ()

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote on 2011-08-10:

Thank you for the bug report. What version of Alarm Clock are you running?

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-10:

Running 0.3.2

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-12:

I've been able to circumvent the crash by disabling the alarm sound, which pretty much defeats the purpose,

Hopefully someone will help me sort this

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-14:

It seems I was missing a GStreamer plugin package, don't know which one exactly because I have now installed them all in Archlinux

So sorry for this bug report. This is not a but, I was just missing some GStreamer plugin.

Would be helpfull to know which one(s) alarm-clock-applet depends on though

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote on 2011-08-14: Re: [Bug 823585] Re: Crash: Could not create player

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 02:36, snoxu <email address hidden> wrote:
> It seems I was missing a GStreamer plugin package, don't know which one
> exactly because I have now installed them all in Archlinux
>
> So sorry for this bug report. This is not a but, I was just missing some
> GStreamer plugin.

Out of curiosity, did you try to play the audio file in question with
Totem? It should prompt you to install any missing codecs.

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snoxu (snoxu3000) wrote on 2011-08-16:

No because I do not have Totem installed

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Anseok Joo (anseok) wrote on 2011-08-26:

That missing plugin package might be gstreamer0.10-gconf. I solved an identical problem in Debian Testing by installing it.

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t405 (tent405) wrote on 2011-10-08:

#10

I run Testing and confirm installing gstreamer0.10-gconf resolves the audio playback segfault.

I cannot speak to the Stable version of alarm-clock-applet (0.3.1-1) as I do not know if that version requires gstreamer0.10-gconf. Furthermore, that package isn't even available in Stable.

Thank you anseok.

The fix for this is simple.

In Versions of alarm-clock-applet (>= 0.3.2-1)
append the following to the Depends line in the DEBIAN/control file:
, gstreamer0.10-gconf (>= 0.10.30-1)

P.S.
This also might affect the stable distribution in a different way. Not sure. Can someone with Stable reproduce this bug?

Changed in alarm-clock:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote on 2012-03-15:

#11

I'm glad you were able to resolve the problem by installing gstreamer0.10-gconf. However alarm-clock shouldn't segfault even though gstreamer is missing some plugins.

Changed in alarm-clock:
assignee:	nobody → Johannes H. Jensen (joh)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → 0.3.3
status:	Fix Committed → In Progress

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote on 2012-03-15:

#12

Fixed in rev 213. Alarm Clock should no longer crash if unable to create the media player.

Changed in alarm-clock:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Johannes H. Jensen (joh) on 2012-06-03

Changed in alarm-clock:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) on 2012-06-04

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote on 2012-06-04: Subscribe ubuntu-sru and set precise task status

#13

  affects ubuntu/precise/alarm-clock-applet
  status confirmed
  subscribe ubuntu-sru

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-06-13:

#14

This bug is missing information detailed in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure for it to comply with Stable Release Updates process. Please add a test case for recreating and the regression potential. Once this information is added to all the bugs addressed by the package in -proposed we will approve the upload. Thanks!

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2012-06-19:

#15

I've rejected this from the precise-proposed queue; changing the debhelper compat level is not a minimal change, and is not appropriate for an SRU.

The rest of the changes look good, however. Feel free to re-upload a package without that change (and update the bug with a test-case and regression potential/where-to-look-for-regressions section).

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2021-10-14:

#16

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release

Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Confirmed → Won't Fix

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