Ubuntu
totem package

Can't open another file if totem is already running

Bug #383386 reported by Kai Jauch on 2009-06-03

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Totem	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #584565
	totem (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

If you try to open another file with totem when totem is already running, it fails:

$ totem movie1.avi
(totem:20280): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor received signal 11

^Z
[1]+ Stopped totem movie1.avi
$ bg
[1]+ totem movie1.avi &
$ totem movie2.avi

(totem:20289): Unique-WARNING **: No user commands defined. You should add new commands with unique_app_add_command().

(totem:20280): Unique-WARNING **: No user commands defined. You should add new commands with unique_app_add_command().

(totem:20280): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Invalid command `' received

The running instance is not affected and continues playing the first file.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 4 00:04:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: totem 2.27.1-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-7.8-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-7-generic x86_64

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/totem

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Kai Jauch (kaijauch) wrote on 2009-06-03:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-06-04

Changed in totem:
status:	Unknown → New

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-06-04:

Thank you for your bug report

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-06-05

Changed in totem:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-06-05:

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-07-24:

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.27.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
totem (2.27.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #403816)
    - Movie Player
      - Add frame-by-frame stepping (LP: #33325)
      - Better fallback names for audio and languages tracks
      - Make the arrow keys navigate DVD menus when one is loaded
      - Move subtitles-related menu items to View → Subtitles.
      - Bug fixes:
        - Fix loading subtitles from the cache
        - Fix loading videos when Totem is already running (LP: #383386)
        - Fix drag'n'dropping a video onto itself reloading the video
        - Only add a file to the recent files when it has been played,
          makes startup with loads of files much quicker
    - GStreamer backend:
      - Prevent tags from other tracks to show up when
        they're not used
      - Try to mount the location where the file is when it's
        not already mounted
    - YouTube plugin:
      - Fix a possible crasher when loading thumbnails
      - Fix problems in non-English locales
      - Fix video list rendering problems
      - Added stop button (LP: #376190)
    - Fix UI differences between the YouTube, Jamendo and local seach plugins
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump gstreamer requirements to 0.10.23.2
  * debian/patches/67_inverted_allow_screensaver_on_audio.patch:
    - Applied upstream
  * debian/patches/02_lpi.patch:
  * debian/patches/66_show-cover-image.patch:
  * debian/patches/70_bbc_plugin.patch:
  * debian/patches/90_autotools.patch:
    - Refreshed