gnome-mplayer freezes X/Gnome after minutes of playback

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
When i leave gnome-mplayer to be playing music while i am away from PC, i 
often return and there is no music playing and whole X (or Gnome) is 
completely locked-up / freezed and i have to switch to eg. vc-1 and kill 
gnome mplayer manualy. i don't know what causes this issue, but i don't 
like my player to freeze my desktop... ;o)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2-1
on Latest ArchLinux

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Harvi...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2010 at 11:55

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I've listened to music for hours from shoutcast using the player. So you'll 
have to
perhaps have debug output or a backtrace for me to even try to do anything 
about it.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2010 at 1:39

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i can't get gnome-mplayer working with strace... it crashes and lefts strace 
unkillable. i don't understand... anyway i can send you my playlist for 
streaming mp3 
from server if it will freeze the g-m (i think the difference is that i do not 
stream 
radio, but multiple mp3s or there can be some broken mp3)... do you prefer some 
genre? 
;-)

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 11:19

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Just something that doesn't scream at me...

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 12:46

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well i have a backtrace.
gnome-mplayer can't be killed by killall gnome-mplayer, i had to use -9 option 
(SIGKILL)

i've attached backtrace (hope it's meaningfull i don't know a sh*t about taking 
backtraces...) and m3u.

i've also found that gnome-mplayer is probably freezing only when it's minified 
to 
tray icon (can't prove this but i think it).

as you can see no mplayer process is running (also i can't hear music)
$ps aux | grep -i mplayer
harvie   27934  1.6  1.1 555760 22496 ?        Sl   20:07   1:47 gnome-mplayer 
/home/harvie/Desktop/dbg.m3u

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 9:05

Attachments:

• freeze-backtrace-01.txt
• dbg.m3u

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Attaching config
gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2

Note that i was playing music with those options:
- Shuffle playlist
- Loop playlist
- Minimized to tray

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 9:14

Attachments:

• gnome-mplayer.conf

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I've built latest SVN (-r 1691) and still freezes...

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 8:36

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Let it run for 20+ mins with three songs in looped random mode... unable to 
have it
hang...

What version of mplayer are you using and what audio output do you have 
selected?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 9:08

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Left audio running for over 2 hrs and never got a hang...

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 11:54

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mplayer 31040
hanged in few minutes... i think it happens only when minimized to tray icon...

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 5 May 2010 at 1:02

Attachments:

• mplayer.conf

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btw using alsa (without such crap as pulse audio)

[03:02:27] 0 ;) harvie@harvie-ntb ~ $ pacman -Qs alsa
local/alsa-lib 1.0.23-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-oss 1.0.17-1
    OSS compatibility library
local/alsa-plugins 1.0.23-1
    Extra alsa plugins
local/alsa-utils 1.0.23-2
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-3
    Gnome ALSA mixer

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 5 May 2010 at 1:04

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If you are not able to reproduce the bug, so you can at least think about it...
- check backtraces i've attached earlier
- what is different when gnome-mplayer is minimized to tray icon? there is no 
window, 
so maybe something can fail if you try to resize or manipulate hidden window. 
gnome 
can also freeze up when you are updating tray icon or window title or another 
gnome 
or gtk property too often...

eg.: something like this can freeze gnome
while(something) gtk_tray_icon_set_text(icon, "blabla");

- any other suggestions?

BTW i have gnome 2.30 (i am not sure, but i think this happened even with 
earlier 
versions)

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 5 May 2010 at 11:02

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I ran it for 2hrs minimized to the tray... do you have notifications enabled? 
When
the song changes do you get a popup? I'm using Fedora 12, so might be a little 
back
level than you.

However, looking at your back trace I don't see anything really that screams a
problem in gnome-mplayer. If I were to guess I would look in the gtk tooltip 
code. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 6 May 2010 at 10:37

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i have notifications disabled... should i enable it?
i do not have such issues with any other application... (and i am running about 
9 
applications with tray icon almost all the time...)

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 6 May 2010 at 10:50

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You could try it, but I doubt it will change anything.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 6 May 2010 at 10:54

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Any updates?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2010 at 3:23

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Still freezes... i don't know what else i can say to you... is there some kind 
of debuging process i can try?

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2010 at 6:33

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When it freezes, check and see what process is hung gnome-mplayer or mplayer. 
Then start gdb and attach to the process id of the hung process. And then do a 
'bt' or backtrace of the process and that might tell you what is wrong.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2010 at 6:42

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Is this still a problem?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 2:38

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kdekorte: well i've moved to VLC since it now supports single-window mode and i 
was pretty bored by gnome-mplayer crashing so often :-) Maybe one day i will 
give it another chance...

Original comment by Harvi...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 7:10

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2010 at 10:45

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