GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 711791
gst-inspect-1.0 hangs on libgsttranscode.so (GEntrans) / FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE
Last modified: 2015-01-25 05:13:13 UTC
Cross-posting here from: http://sourceforge.net/p/gentrans/bugs/4/ "Using the 'Open Video Reference Build', 'make install' for gentrans git checkout 9aec453 (master) causes gst-inspect-1.0 to hang on FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE [strace traces in orig. Sourceforge report]. I don't have a proposed solution but a search on FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE errors indicates that it's a subtle but show-stopping bug." 'Open Video Reference Build' = https://gitorious.org/openvideo_reference_build
Can't reproduce with GStreamer 1.2.1 and GEntrans 1.0 (as installed by Fedora 20). Can you attach gdb to it once this happens and see where it blocks ?
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you attach gdb to it once this happens and see where it blocks ? Hi George, I am closing this bug report as no updated information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment.
I've seen it intermittently over the past few months -- not specific to gsttranscode, appears to be a kernel-related race condition of some type: slowing down gst-inspect (verbose mode) via stdout flow control helps. I'll post here if I can pin down the specific kernel revision number(s) that trigger the error.