Session Installer

gstreamer-codec-install: error: no such option: --interaction

Bug #1499889 reported by Nicolas Delvaux on 2015-09-25

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Session Installer	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	gst-plugins-base	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	gst-plugins-base1.0 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	sessioninstaller (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Iain Lane

Bug Description

Attempting to play a mp3 file with Totem on the latest Wily daily build (from the USB stick).

Totem opens but no playback start.
On the terminal I got this:

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, mpegaudioversion=(int)1, layer=(int)3, parsed=(boolean)true (MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder)
Falling back to package information
Usage: gstreamer-codec-install [options]

gstreamer-codec-install: error: no such option: --interaction

The wizard to install the missing codec actually fails to launch.

The very same happen when attempting to play a video. Strangely enough, when the audio codec is supported but the video one is not, Totem starts to play the audio and just display a black rectangle instead of the actual video stream.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 1.5.90-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-11.13-generic 4.2.1
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.365
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Sep 25 20:49:46 2015
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150924)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer1.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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lp://staging/ubuntu/wily-proposed/sessioninstaller

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Nicolas Delvaux (malizor) wrote on 2015-09-25:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (601 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GstreamerVersions.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (15.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LogAlsaMixer.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (83.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Nicolas Delvaux (malizor) on 2015-09-25

no longer affects:

gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu)

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Nicolas Delvaux (malizor) wrote on 2015-09-25:

#2

Switched to gst-plugins-base, as the unknown parameter is set there:

gst-libs/gst/pbutils/install-plugins.c: g_ptr_array_add (arr, g_strdup_printf ("--interaction=%s",

Now, I don't know if this parameter is supposed to do and if it should really be supported.

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Nicolas Delvaux (malizor) wrote on 2015-09-25:

#3

Adding sessioninstaller, as it provides gst-install as the default gstreamer-codec-install alternative.
It does not support the --interaction option and therefore conflict with the current gst-plugins-base in Wily.
I don't know which one of them should be fixed, so I guess my investigation stop here for now.

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Nicolas Delvaux (malizor) wrote on 2015-09-25:

#4

Hmm, in fact not only the "--interaction" argument is missing.

This is not a serious patch, but the issue can be worked-around by adding the following lines after line 90 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sessioninstaller/gstinstaller.py:

parser.add_option("", "--interaction")
parser.add_option("", "--desktop-id")
parser.add_option("", "--startup-notification-id")

After this monkey-patch, Totem shows me the dialog to install missing codecs.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2015-09-26:

#5

I'll check this out on Monday, thanks for the report.

Changed in sessioninstaller (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Iain Lane (laney)

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2015-09-28:

#6

I uploaded a fix for this.

It just ignores the new parameters as doing it properly would require us to implement the org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Modify2 API which is quite a big task for now.

Changed in gst-plugins-base1.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in sessioninstaller (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in sessioninstaller:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-09-28:

#7

This bug was fixed in the package sessioninstaller - 0.20+bzr150-0ubuntu2

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sessioninstaller (0.20+bzr150-0ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

  * New gstreamer codec install API passes the parameters --interaction
    --desktop-id and -startup-notification-id to us. We don't support them
    (yet), and should not error out but should ignore them instead. They are
    part of a new PackageKit API which is yet to be implmented but GStreamer
    calls us manually. (LP: #1499889)

-- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:48:15 +0100

Changed in sessioninstaller (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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