Gnome: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal

Svenstaro · 2009-09-08 22:03:14

This started happening after updating two days ago. I have no idea what actually causes this error nor how to fix it. Running any Gnome application that needs gstreamer (especially gnome-settings-daemon!) will fail with error:
Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal

For example, running gnome-settings-daemon --no-daemon --debug I get http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/358611

Stuff I have tried: Reinstall gconf, gnome, gnome-extras, all gstreamer stuff - futile attempts.
mv .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd to somewhere else - futile attempts.

Anybody got any ideas?

BeRReGoN · 2009-09-10 02:40:30

I had problems with xfburn and brasero but i see that totem also won't start. Me too it happened since an update some days ago.

with totem i get the "child terminated by signal" and with xfburn i get "failed to initialize gstreamer"

Seem this guy had the same problem:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62291

Last edited by BeRReGoN (2009-09-10 02:47:37)

Allan · 2009-09-10 02:50:31

Any idea what update caused this? Look in /var/log/pacman.log to figure out what got updated during that period and try downgrading it.

BeRReGoN · 2009-09-10 03:06:46

I downgraded gstreamer-0.10-bad and gstreamer-0.10-bad-plugin and everything works again so gstreamer bad is bad (at least for me).

Edit: I upgraded gstreamer-0.10-bad only and the problem is back so this is the problematic package.

Last edited by BeRReGoN (2009-09-10 03:18:22)

Svenstaro · 2009-09-10 11:13:30

Thanks a lot for the research! My Gnome desktop is utterly unusable with that problem. Did anyone file a bug report? Did you try building the package manually from upstream? Does Arch alter it at all? I'll do some research on this myself and I'll also write the mailing list to see if anybody would happen to know the actual cause of the problem.

BeRReGoN · 2009-09-10 14:08:00

No i didn't filled a bug report, never did it so not sure how. I use xfce4 and when i updated soem days ago, the first thing that broke was the mixer who didn't want to show up as an applet anymore.

I wonder what make it works improperly on our system since it doesn't seema lot of people have this problem.

Last edited by BeRReGoN (2009-09-10 14:08:26)

Svenstaro · 2009-09-10 16:35:01

Bug report already filed (not by me): http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16060

Please vote, comment and confirm.

Last edited by Svenstaro (2009-09-10 16:35:18)

trapanator · 2009-09-13 10:11:00

Confirming. I've voted the bug.

Svenstaro · 2009-09-13 18:51:25

Fixed by recompiling gavl v1.1.1 using proper -mtune settings. It appears this bugs only occurs to people with a lower CPU than the gavl maintainer.

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#1 2009-09-08 22:03:14

Gnome: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal

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