Please ignore pidgin.log as it is the wrong file. I have attached the correct file as pidgin_2.log
2009/3/11 Daniel Bolton <danielbarrettbol...@gmail.com>: > Package: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg > Version: 0.10.6.2-1 > Severity: normal > > > This plugin file, /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so , renders any > program that uses it (like Pidgin and Quod Libet for example) unusable. > I will send dbg output from these two programs also. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > 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 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines > ii libgstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.22-3 GStreamer libraries from the > "base > ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.22-2 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. > > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > -- Daniel
(00:10:35) prefs: Reading /home/daniel/.purple/prefs.xml (00:10:35) prefs: Finished reading /home/daniel/.purple/prefs.xml (00:10:35) dbus: okkk (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/libextprefs.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/convcolors.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/spellchk.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/sendbutton.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/history.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gevolution.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp_format.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/markerline.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/ticker.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/cap.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/iconaway.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/extplacement.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gestures.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/pidginrc.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/gtkbuddynote.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/musicmessaging.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/xmppconsole.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/joinpart.so (00:10:35) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libyahoo.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libirc.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/idle.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libbonjour.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl-nss.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so (00:10:36) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro? (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so (00:10:36) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro? (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/tcl.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libzephyr.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so (00:10:36) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so has a prefs_info, but is a prpl. This is no longer supported. (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/perl.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libicq.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/autoaccept.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/log_reader.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/offlinemsg.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libqq.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/dbus-example.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/buddynote.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/newline.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libnovell.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libmsn.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libaim.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libxmpp.so (00:10:36) util: Reading file xmpp-caps.xml from directory /home/daniel/.purple (00:10:36) jabber: creating hash tables for data objects (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libmyspace.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/psychic.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/statenotify.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libsimple.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libsilcpurple.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/ssl.so (00:10:36) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libgg.so (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/available changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/invisible changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/away changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/extended_away changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/idle changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/status/scores/offline_msg changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) util: Reading file accounts.xml from directory /home/daniel/.purple (00:10:36) util: Reading file status.xml from directory /home/daniel/.purple (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, singleuse requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateVerifier singleuse registered (00:10:36) certificate: CertificatePool x509, ca requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate/x509/ca: Lazy init failed because an X.509 Scheme is not yet registered. Maybe it will be better later. (00:10:36) certificate/x509/ca: Init failed, probably because a dependency is not yet registered. It has been deferred to later. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificatePool ca registered (00:10:36) certificate: CertificatePool x509, tls_peers requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificatePool tls_peers registered (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateVerifier x509, tls_cached requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateVerifier tls_cached registered (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/logging/format changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/proxy/type changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/proxy/host changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/proxy/port changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/proxy/username changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) prefs: /purple/proxy/password changed, scheduling save. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 requested but not found. (00:10:36) certificate: CertificateScheme x509 registered (00:10:36) util: Reading file smileys.xml from directory /home/daniel/.purple (00:10:36) util: File /home/daniel/.purple/smileys.xml does not exist (this is not necessarily an error) (00:10:36) stun: using server (00:10:36) sound: Initializing sound output drivers. 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.