First, it crashed all user input of my OS.
I rebooted, and it got to the part where it usually pops up with the login screen.

There was a black screen where I could type anything, but nothing happened.

That screen pops up when I try to boot using my filesystem.


I LOST MY GAME I WAS DEVELOPING!

I booted from my live cd, and tried to recover as much data as I could...

THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT.

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GSTREAMER DELETED MY FILESYSTEM

Sorry to hear that but why exactly do you think this was caused by GStreamer? How and when were you using it?

(Unless there's a bug in a) your hardware, b) the kernel or c) you run a GStreamer application as root it's absolutely impossible that it was able to remove everything from your harddrive because only root can do that)

That screenshot is of your /boot partition. Usually there'd be a root partition on the disk as well.

I'd like to know why you think GStreamer is the cause too.

I don't expect much useful comments here that will actually help to track the underlying reason down. First three comments don't contain any information why this is gstreamer related and reporter should probably go to a forum first to find some help to track this down.

snd2zac, please read https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html and try to come up with a useful bug report, otherwise this will end up soon as RESOLVED INCOMPLETE.

Closing bug. Please reopen if you can come up with details proving it was gst's fault.

Gstreamer crashed, and was sucking up resources so I closed it.
My operating system froze, and never successfully booted again.

I can't really prove it, seeing how the only way I could have done that is if I had a camera and was recording my screen.

snd2zac: there are at least three problems with this bug report:

a) none of this makes much sense from a technical point of view.

b) even if we believed that it was GStreamer that did this (which no one here does so far), there's simply absolutely nothing to go on, ie. no useful information.

c) your first point of contact should be your distro and/or whoever supplied your GStreamer packages, ie. most likely Fedora. You should file a bug in their bug tracker (however, the bug-writing guidelines still apply).


In case you do file a bug there, you might want to elaborate on the following points:

> Gstreamer crashed, 

- what do you mean with 'crashed'?

- how do you know it was GStreamer?

- GStreamer is a library, what application was it that crashed?


> and was sucking up resources so I closed it.

if it had crashed, there wouldn't have been anything left taking up resources or anything left to close.


> My operating system froze, and never successfully booted again.

If a user-space application or library is able to freeze the system and/or damage your system installation, that's a bug in the kernel or in some driver.


> I can't really prove it, seeing how the only way I could have done that is if I
> had a camera and was recording my screen.

Sure, I think we're not so much looking for 'proof' as to any evidence at all that GStreamer has any part in this. To me it sounds more like something else (don't ask me what, but likely running with root privileges) accessed/used/thrashed the harddrive and froze the system by doing lots of I/O.