[Bug-gnash] [Bug 528692] Re: 'undefined symbol: _Py_RefTotal' related to Gstreamer

[jdackle]

Epiphany only displays the warning. I noticed nothing else in Epiphany.

Gnash however simply does nothing. The PID is open and visible through "ps ux" 
but other than that, I get no other evidence it even actually started.
I have tried loading only one .swf file with Gnash from the shell.
However, I did try to run Gnash without any console parameters and the result 
was exactly the same: nothing but that message about 'undefined symbol: 
_Py_RefTotal' when trying to load a gstreamer plugin.

Gstreamer (through e.e. Totem) does work fine with non .swf files.

Hope that helped.

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'undefined symbol: _Py_RefTotal' related to Gstreamer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528692
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Status in Epiphany Browser: Incomplete
Status in GNU Flash movie player: Incomplete
Status in The GStreamer Multimedia Framework: Incomplete

Bug description:
This happened on my Karmic on the use of two different binaries so far:
* gtk-gnash (also gnash)
* epiphany

In the later case, this is what came out of Epiphany on the console:

 (epiphany-browser:7534): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin 
'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython_d.so': 
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpython_d.so: undefined symbol: _Py_RefTotal

The message on gnash was very similar (same reference to undefined symbol in 
same library) and actually made it silently freeze.

I don't actually know where that lib belongs so I can't point to the concerning 
package.

I found two other bugs referencing this message but it seems each application 
has taken a particular (instead of generalised) fix for this.
Then again, someone did mention in one of those that the problem is related to 
apps using the old python classes... So... maybe it is each app's job to do 
it...?
If so, please let me know so I can report this to the apropriate applications.

Here are the two other bugs:
* Bug #377226 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/listen/+bug/377226
* Bug #114053 - https://launchpad.net/bugs/114053

Thank you.