[gst-devel] gstreamer crash

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Seth Bayens wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I compiled the latest CVS of gstreamer, and every application that uses
> it fails with something similiar to the following:
> 
> 
> INFO ( 1755: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library
> INFO ( 1755: 0) CPU features: (0c040882) MMX SSE 
> 
> (process:1755): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type
> `GstTypeFactory'
[...]
> I also tried with the release tarballs and an RPM, and they all do the
> same thing.  My GNOME is all the stuff from the 2.0 release, if that
> helps.
> 
> Whats going on here?

You have old plugins hanging around, and we're not properly versioning
them yet (our problem, sort of). Delete $prefix/lib/gstreamer and
reinstall.

regards,

wingo.