gst-plugin-scanner hangs, eating CPU time

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 01:26 +0100, Rüdiger Kupper wrote:

Hi,

> after reactivating execute permissions of gst-plugin-scanner I was able
> to do an strace of one of the runaway gst-plugin-scanner processes.
> 
> The EAGAIN signals a saw in the strace of totem do not appear, so this
> was not the cause.
> 
> I attach strace and proc/maps of the runaway gst-plugin-scanner process.
> 
> Removing gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly did not help,
> so the plugin causing the hang is not in there.
> 
> Any ideas will be welcome. Thank you very much,

Could you also collect a GST_DEBUG=*:5 log please?

 $ GST_DEBUG=*:5 totem 2>dbg.log
 .. control-C after a while if it hangs ...

Also, it would be good if you could open a bug report about this in
bugzilla and attach all the logs there (gzipped or bzip2ed if too
large).

 Cheers
  -Tim