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FS#7466 - gstreamer goom visualization causes a crash in xserver 1.3.0.0

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 20:11 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 05 August 2007, 17:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
gstreamer goom visualization causes a crash in xserver 1.3.0.0
It crashes the xserver when I ctrl+atl+f1 and then ctrl+atl+f7

The crash doesn't happen under xserver 1.2.0

Additional info:
xorg-server 1.3.0.0

Steps to reproduce:
run rhythmbox and start playing a media file. start the visualization plugin
do ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7
xserver crashes.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 05 August 2007, 17:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 08:48 GMT
Attached a patch from git that fixes the xserver crash.
   xsever-xv-crash.patch (1.4 KiB)
Comment by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 22:08 GMT
Is it possible to get this patch into the xserver package in testing? I've been using it for around 9 days and it does indeed fix the xserver crash.

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