[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 614148] GSTREAMER DELETE MY WHOLE FREAKING OPERATING SYSTEM!

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614148
  GStreamer | don't know | unspecified

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         Resolution|                            |INCOMPLETE
   Target Milestone|HEAD                        |NONE
           Severity|blocker                     |critical

--- Comment #9 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2010-04-03 21:25:11 UTC ---
snd2zac: there are at least three problems with this bug report:

a) none of this makes much sense from a technical point of view.

b) even if we believed that it was GStreamer that did this (which no one here
does so far), there's simply absolutely nothing to go on, ie. no useful
information.

c) your first point of contact should be your distro and/or whoever supplied
your GStreamer packages, ie. most likely Fedora. You should file a bug in their
bug tracker (however, the bug-writing guidelines still apply).


In case you do file a bug there, you might want to elaborate on the following
points:

> Gstreamer crashed, 

- what do you mean with 'crashed'?

- how do you know it was GStreamer?

- GStreamer is a library, what application was it that crashed?


> and was sucking up resources so I closed it.

if it had crashed, there wouldn't have been anything left taking up resources
or anything left to close.


> My operating system froze, and never successfully booted again.

If a user-space application or library is able to freeze the system and/or
damage your system installation, that's a bug in the kernel or in some driver.


> I can't really prove it, seeing how the only way I could have done that is if I
> had a camera and was recording my screen.

Sure, I think we're not so much looking for 'proof' as to any evidence at all
that GStreamer has any part in this. To me it sounds more like something else
(don't ask me what, but likely running with root privileges)
accessed/used/thrashed the harddrive and froze the system by doing lots of I/O.

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