Package: gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly Version: 1.6.3-1 Severity: important Both Konqueror and Iceweasel will completely freeze when opening any web-site which has an html video tag. Attaching a debugger shows the applications waiting on an event inside gstreamer in a plugin scan. It was discovered removing the ugly set of plugins solved the issue. Upgrading the ugly set to 1.7 from experimental was tried but did not help.
Following stdout was emitted by both browsers before hanging: (gst-plugin-scanner:31849): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GstAudioVisualizer-BaseExtLibvisual' (gst-plugin-scanner:31849): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (gst-plugin-scanner:31849): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed (gst-plugin-scanner:31849): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (gst-plugin-scanner:31849): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion 'g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed The hang was not CPU bound, but happened in a nested gstreamer eventloop in both applications blocking the UI. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly depends on: ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-18 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcdio13 0.83-4.2 ii libdvdread4 5.0.3-1 ii libgcc1 1:6-20160117-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.1-1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.7.1-1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.7.1-1 ii libmad0 0.15.1b-8 ii libmp3lame0 1:3.99.5-dmo2 ii libmpeg2-4 0.5.1-7 pn libopencore-amrnb0 <none> pn libopencore-amrwb0 <none> ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.24-1 pn libsidplay1 <none> ii libstdc++6 6-20160117-1 ii libtwolame0 0.3.13-1.2 pn libx264-142 <none> gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly recommends no packages. gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly suggests no packages.
