GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349771
Totem could no start up. Could not initialize supporting library.
Last modified: 2006-08-22 16:32:34 UTC
Please describe the problem: Totem comes up with a error message "Totem could no start up." (title) "Could not initialize supporting library." (text). However there's no documentation about it and the error message isn't very informative for all those who don't develop totem. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
That looks like an error message from GStreamer.
Looks like one of those errors that shouldn't really happen under normal circumstances. Does this happen when you start totem, or when you play a file, or only when you play a particular file, or when exactly? What type of file were you trying to play? Could you run totem from the command line like this: $ export GST_DEBUG=*:4 $ export GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 $ totem yourfile.foo 2>dbg.log ... wait for error to appear ... ... stop totem ... $ bzip2 dbg.log and attach the dbg.log.bz2 file to this bug report?
Created attachment 70189 [details] log file Here it is. I just started totem without parameters.
Thanks for the log. The error message comes from autoaudiosink, which throws it because it can't find any usable audiosinks. In fact it doesn't even try any audio sinks, so it looks like there are none installed. Could you check with gst-inspect-0.10 whether you have any of: alsasink, osssink, sunaudiosink or esdsink. You might need to install additional packages to get these, depending on which distro you are on (very weird that none are installed though). The error itself is very misleading/confusing as well, but that's already been fixed in -good CVS a while ago (August 16th).
The remaining aspects of this bug (totem shouldn't check for the audio sink on startup etc.) are covered by bug #156576 and bug #170719 IMHO, so closing this one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170719 ***