Totem can not play avi, crashes with sigsegv (Xenial)

[Bruce Pieterse]

On 20/02/2016 08:12, Khurshid Alam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not able to play avi with totem. It always crashes.This is
> happening with GStreamer-1.0 (1.7.1). However other GStreamer based
> player like MPV can play the video just fine. I have already reported
> the bug here.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/+bug/1547621
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't able to get stack trace. It complains "No
> symbol table available". I do have totem-dbg and gstreamer-1.0-libav-dbg
> installed in my PC.
>
> Am I missing something? How do I properly debug this kind of crashes?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

Hi Khurshid,

You can follow the instructions here on how to debug an application: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures (Debugging Tools at the 
bottom) and specifically https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace which is one 
way of gathering a backtrace.

-- 
All the best,

Bruce