[Bug 689426] Re: Confusing error message when an audio call fails
Arseniy Alekseyev
rotsor at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 21:43:42 UTC 2011
Sorry for slow response. I have updated the report with the empathy
version and the steps to reproduce. Actually this is not really a bug,
but rather just bad error message.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: empathy
+
+ I am using empathy 2.34.0.
I received the following message when the sound capture failed during an
audio call:
There was a failure in the call engine:
Could not link source
The underlying problem turned out to be incorrect configuration of the default gstreamer source. I had /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc GConf key set to "osssrc" while I did not have OSS installed.
ALSA-based applications worked perfectly so I had no idea why empathy would fail.
- The problem became obvious when I executed the following command: gst-
+
+ So, steps to reproduce:
+ - Set the value of gconf variable '/system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc' to 'osssrc' without OSS installed.
+ - Run empathy.
+ - Connect to a google talk, for example.
+ - Try to make an audio or video-call.
+
+ You will receive that confusing message.
+
+
+ The problem becomes obvious when I execute the following command: gst-
launch-0.10 gconfaudiosrc ! gconfaudiosink
- The output clearly showed what went wrong:
+ The output shows what's wrong:
ERROR: from element /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0: Could not open audio device for recording.
Additional debug info:
gstosssrc.c(379): gst_oss_src_open (): /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0:
Unable to open device /dev/dsp for recording: No such file or directory
- I think it would be great if the empathy error "Technical details"
- showed this information or at least hint what it was trying to do (open
- the "gconfaudiosrc" gstreamer element).
- Even a slight modification of the error message could make it vastly more useful:
+ I think it would be great if the empathy error "Technical details" showed the information reported or at least hint what it was trying to do (open the "gconfaudiosrc" gstreamer element).
+
+ Even a slight modification of the error message could make it vastly more useful, like
"Could not link gstreamer source 'gconfaudiosrc'."
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Title:
Confusing error message when an audio call fails
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