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[gutsy] totem crashes X when changing audio visualisation

Bug #164844 reported by Emmet Caulfield
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

On gutsy (amd64, 2.6.22-14-generic), Totem (2.20.0) comes with two visual effects for playing audio: "GOOM" and "Monoscope". Switching from "GOOM" to "Monoscope" while playing an MP3 kills X (ATI proprietary v.8.42.3) as suddenly and reliably as Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Reproduce:
   1. Start totem with default audio visualisation "GOOM"
   2. Play any MP3 file
   3. Select Edit->Preferences->Display
   4. Under "Visual Effects", change "Type of visualisation" to "Monoscope"
   5. Enter your username at the GDM login screen ;o)

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote :

Hi Emmet
I couldn't reproduce this issue under gutsy, do you have desktop effects activated?, can you reproduce this issue in the "safe mode" X, using the vesa instead of the proprietary ati driver.

please include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/gdm/:0.log as separate attachments.

Thanks in advance

Changed in totem:
status: New → Incomplete
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Emmet Caulfield (emmetcaulfield) wrote :

Hi Basilio,

No, I do not have desktop effects enabled. Unfortunately, scrolling is just too damn slow, and I'm not enough into eye-candy to suffer it.

I've upgraded to the latest ATI proprietary driver, which they're calling "7.11" (even though it's later than 8.42.3) and the problem persists.

The attached files are from the (latest) 7.11 version.

Emmet.

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Emmet Caulfield (emmetcaulfield) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try to reproduce this bug with latest Ubuntu release?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in totem:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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