Bug#692069: knotify: knotify crashes during desktop startup or shutdown.
Package: kde-runtime
Followup-For: Bug #692069
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
After vlc update I received errors on vlccore libraries with normal dersktop use,
I searched the web and it looks like the error was related to phonon-backend-vlc
(I had the debian multimedia version installed, so this bug report can't be used
with the one in official debian repository)
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I uninstalled phonon-backend-vlc and installed phonon-backend-null; no more
crashes but no more notify sound too (there is a warning during configure about
this, it's ok and it was what I expected).
Then I switched to phonon-backend-gstreamer and it works fine. Sound ok and
no crash.
* What was the outcome of this action?
As I can see the bug is related to phonon-backend-vlc (the debian multimedia one
in my system) and vlc is also the default backend; since changing backend solved my
problem I suggest other people with the same problem to give a try with this solution
and to report.
Since the vlc problems is documented (using google there are lots of results) I suggest
to change the default phonon-backend OR to write a warning in the configuration of phonon
(something like in phonon-backend-null) so people know there must be this problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kde-runtime depends on:
ii kde-runtime-data 4:4.14.0-2
ii kdelibs5-plugins 4:4.14.0-1
ii libasound2 1.0.28-1
ii libattica0.4 0.4.2-1
ii libc6 2.19-11
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libexiv2-13 0.24-4
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-14
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.2-3
ii libgpgme++2 4:4.14.0-1
ii libgpgme11 1.5.1-5
ii libjpeg8 8d1-1
ii libkactivities6 4:4.13.3-1
ii libkcmutils4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdeclarative5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdecore5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdesu5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdeui5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdewebkit5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkdnssd4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkemoticons4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkfile4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkhtml5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkio5 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkmediaplayer4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libknewstuff3-4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libknotifyconfig4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkparts4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkpty4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libkxmlrpcclient4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libntrack-qt4-1 016-1.2
ii libopenexr6 1.6.1-8
ii libphonon4 4:4.8.0-1
ii libplasma3 4:4.14.0-1
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 5.0-6
ii libpulse0 5.0-6
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-declarative 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-script 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-svg 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2
ii libqtwebkit4 2.2.1-7.1
ii libsmbclient 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
ii libsolid4 4:4.14.0-1
ii libssh-gcrypt-4 0.6.3-3+b1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-14
ii libwebp5 0.4.1-1.2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1
ii oxygen-icon-theme 4:4.14.0-1
ii perl 5.20.0-6
ii phonon 4:4.8.0-1
ii plasma-scriptengine-javascript 4:4.14.0-2
kde-runtime recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kde-runtime suggests:
pn djvulibre-bin <none>
ii finger 0.17-15
pn icoutils <none>
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