Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1
On 22/03/11 15:16, Steven Sciame wrote:
>
> I understand what you are saying, but nothing responds. The mouse
> moves, but nothing is able to be clicked on. No menu's, windows,
> nothing. I waited for 10 minutes and still nothing.
Depending on your system nice settings 10 minutes isn't very long.
> Running from the
> Terminal did not reveal anything. I couldn't ^C, right click, nothing.
>
> I am reluctant to do this because I am not sure if it is good to shut
> the computer down that way(holding the power button until it goes
> dead). I have to then reboot, watch all of the udev errors fly by
> (sysfs no longer... use attr instead) And since the mouse pointer
> doesn't work after a reboot, a suspend and wakeup is needed to get the
> laptop back to where I can reasonably use it.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace?
Ctrl+Alt+F2?
SysReq/s?
>
> The contents of my sources.list are as follows
>
> steven@debtop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>
> #Multimedia
> deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main non-free
That'd be the most likely cause - IMHO it should always be commented out
unless you specifically want a package from there.
I'm guessing you have Totem set to use gstreamer as the backend - not
sure if its requires w32 codecs as well. If you had the multimedia
repository enabled when you upgraded to the last point release - it
"might" be what broke your system (especially if you have ffmpeg and
friends).... they can't be expected to instantly keep up with the main
Debian releases.
If it were me I'd (probably):-
comment out multimedia.org in sources.list
#apt-get update
check what removing totem will do:-
#apt-get -s remove totem | more
if it looks like you're not going to lose your gui:-
#apt-get -s remove totem > /root/list_of_what_will_be_removed
(in case re-installing leaves some packages out)
#apt-get install totem
test on your example wmv
If you use multimedia.org you should disable it before doing an system
upgrade *unless* you have pinning setup
> steven@debtop:/var/log$ dmesg | grep -i totem
unlikely to be useful, this might work better (before the reboot, if you
can get a vt):-
dmesg | tail
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> > This was fine before 6.0.1
Noted, also the lack of other people with a similar issue - which makes
me wonder if it's somehow related to your mouse problem...
> >
> <snipped>
> If the mouse moves, the system hasn't crashed - if you wait it will most
> likely respond. Running top in a terminal window could be instructive.
>
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> Do you have any other video players installed? VLC? Kaffeine? Dragon?
> Mplayer etc?
>
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Cheers - I'll try and check back later this evening.
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