Bug#531272: ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin:file:/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so

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Package: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Version: 0.10.7-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

this gstreamer0.10 lib need some brushing.

totem, epihany, icemonkey and others, sporadicaly crashes, and I
yet speculate without proofs it is a plugin related matter; too lazy to
dig a report!

but one culprit can be caught when running well used gnome stuff like the
gnome-setting-daemon or gnome-power-manager, and looking in the .xsession-errors :

....
(gnome-power-manager:7970): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin
'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmms.so':
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmms.so: undefined symbol:
mmsx_get_time_length

(gnome-power-manager:7970): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin
'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmodplug.so':
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmodplug.so: undefined symbol:
_ZN10CSoundFile17SetResamplingModeEj

ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so

Please either:
- remove it and restart.
- run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug.
Could not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry , child
terminated by signal
1241549314.266548 Session manager: disconnected...

.....

I got to say it could be a corrupted gconf setting, but where to look in
the gnome settings domain?

.Regards to the package Maintainers.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec52              3:20090222-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52             3:20090222-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49               3:20090222-0.0 avutil shared libraries
ii  libc6                     2.9-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.1-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.22-5      GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0        0.10.23-1      Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  liboil0.3                 0.3.15-1       Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libpostproc51             3:20090222-0.0 postproc shared libraries
ii  libswscale0               3:20090222-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg recommends no packages.

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