GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 382390
gnome-sound-properties crash when user not in 'audio'
Last modified: 2006-12-10 20:49:47 UTC
Version: 2.16.1 What were you doing when the application crashed? Launching the tool from control-center. Distribution: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-11-20 (SUSE) BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0 Memory status: size: 187994112 vsize: 187994112 resident: 3600384 share: 10899456 rss: 14499840 rss_rlim: -837129216 CPU usage: start_time: 1165267629 rtime: 10 utime: 8 stime: 2 cutime:1 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100 Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/bin/gnome-sound-properties' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47337884905376 (LWP 20667)] (no debugging symbols found) 0x00002b0db345ac25 in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 91605
Thread 1 (Thread 47337884905376 (LWP 20667))
Kernel in use is 2.6.18.2-23-xen (not the latest), on X86-64 hardware. This is a Xensource Dom0. When booting into 2.6.18.2-23-default (non-Xen) the crash does not happen.
The user running the program was not in the 'audio' group, and thus not able to access the sound devices. Oopsie poo.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately, that stack trace is missing some elements that will help a lot to solve the problem, so it will be hard for the developers to fix that crash. Can you get us a stack trace with debugging symbols? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
I installed the debug patches and got a much better stack dump (though it still looks pretty short): Distribution: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-11-20 (SUSE) BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0 Memory status: size: 188022784 vsize: 188022784 resident: 3608576 share: 10919936 rss: 14528512 rss_rlim: -837129216 CPU usage: start_time: 1165424118 rtime: 10 utime: 8 stime: 2 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100 Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/bin/gnome-sound-properties' Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47565001924512 (LWP 11836)] 0x00002b4294805c25 in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 92083
Thread 1 (Thread 47565001924512 (LWP 11836))
Another stack-trace, only this time I ran the crashing module with "--gst-debug-flag=5" as a command line. I'll include that file after this one. Distribution: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-11-20 (SUSE) BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0 Memory status: size: 188026880 vsize: 188026880 resident: 3612672 share: 10932224 rss: 14544896 rss_rlim: -837129216 CPU usage: start_time: 1165424918 rtime: 15 utime: 14 stime: 1 cutime:4 cstime: 2 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100 Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/bin/gnome-sound-properties' Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47706766393248 (LWP 11951)] 0x00002b6396527c25 in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 92087
Thread 1 (Thread 47706766393248 (LWP 11951))
Created attachment 77833 [details] stderr output for 'gnome-sound-properties --gst-debug-level=5'
greg, thanks a lot for investigating. this is a duplicate of bug 363005, and we already have a patch available which should fix this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 363005 ***