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linphone package

Linphone-3 + Webcam = crash on startup

Bug #582268 reported by Ragnar
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: linphone

Linphone crashes on startup when i plug a webcamera.
rgnr@rgnr:~$ linphone-3
** Message: Found lang C

(linphone-3:1984): libglade-WARNING **: Radio button group video_item could not be found
ALSA lib conf.c:4600:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib control.c:902:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:0
ALSA lib conf.c:4600:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
ALSA lib conf.c:4600:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
Segmentation fault

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

I am also seeing this crash on an ASUS EeePC 900 netbook that doesn't even HAVE a webcam (built-in or external).

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

this may be the same crash as Bug #529546

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

I just discovered that if I open a terminal and open linphonec, I can register to my sip account and make a call. Furthermore, after I have done that and exited from linphonec, the linphone-3 graphical app will open and register to my sip account. HOWEVER when I ran it just now the application did not have any window manager widgets -- no title bar, no resize control, etc. I didn't try to make a call but it looked like it was working.

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Ragnar (irnbld) wrote :

Well, I can launch it normally with web camera disconnected. However I'm using Twinkle and it works perfectly. Thus, if noone will handle this bug, use twinkle.

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

I found the same bug reported against the same version 3.2.1 in Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580806

Debian sid has the 3.3.1 version packaged, so I presume it will be in the lucid+1 repository. I am eager to test the new version to see if this is fixed.

I am finding that after I have successfully launched linphone using the command line, it works perfectly when launched from GNOME, as long as I don't attempt to turn on the webcam feature. I presume the cli versions successfully write whatever linphone needs in the user directory and the GUI can launch. I used linphone when traveling in Europe recently and did not have a problem with it.

(Twinkle is fine, but unfortunately it doesn't have a dtmf numeric keypad so I can't use it to retrieve my voice mail, and also its dialogs are too tall to use easily on my netbook. I just added linphone-3 to the maximus exclusion list using gconf-editor, and I find it much more netbook-compatible than twinkle.)

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Changed in linphone (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in linphone (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in linphone (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

I just had a chance to try Linphone 3.3.2 in Precise (3.3.2-4.1ubuntu1) and it seems to launch perfectly. Marking this as "fix released" in Ubuntu.

Changed in linphone (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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