This issue seems to have persisted, see duplicate bug. I also have this problem, trying to add missing information:
Using $ pasuspender -- istanbul changes the behavior: without pasuspender: file input dialog pops up and then program terminates with pasuspender: no file input dialog, no termination, but program hangs with the following output: p...@peter:~$ pasuspender -- istanbul /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:37: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip self.tooltips = gtk.Tooltips() /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:77: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Use a selector to select area of screen to capture.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:90: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Select a window on the screen to capture")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:107: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Tick this if you want to screencast a 3d application. This will however take more CPU power.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:119: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Tick this if you want to record the mouse pointer during the screencast.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:133: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Tick this if you want to record audio with the screencast. You can choose the audio device to record from in the Multimedia Systems Selector in Preferences.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:145: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Select this if you do not want to scale down the size of the recording.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:169: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Select this to scale down the recording resolution by 1/2.")) /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/istanbul/main/tray_popup.py:176: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip _("Select this to scale down the recording resolution by 1/4.")) DEBUG: final pipeline: oggmux name=mux ! filesink location=/tmp/tmpLcHwCA istximagesrc name=videosource display-name=:0.0 screen-num=0 show-pointer=false ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=10/1 ! videorate ! ffmpegcolorspace ! videoscale method=1 ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=1280,height=1024,framerate=10/1 ! theoraenc ! queue ! mux. gconfaudiosrc name=audiosource ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! queue ! mux. strace on istanbul shows: futex(0x9e770e8, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL strace on pasuspender shows: ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 3, NULL, NULL, 8 -- unable to record sound with istanbul https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs