Question for the release team: I managed to track down that bug to a specific upstream commit, reverting the change seems to work on my test machine at least as far as the webcam part is concerned. So I'm confident uploading that change will fix the installer.
Now I'm no gstreamer expert and it's not unlikely that this revert will break something else in gstreamer. The bug has been forwarded upstream so hopefully we'll get a proper fix soon. My question is, do we prefer to wait until upstream has a fix (can be days/weeks) before touching gstreamer or do we prefer to take the risk of regressing gstreamer to fix the installer? My personal opinion is that it's much easier to fix whatever I break with that fix post-release through an SRU than to tell everyone affected to wait till the first point release to get a working media. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966294 Title: gstreamer hangs when accessing webcam (on specific hardware) Status in The GStreamer Multimedia Framework: Unknown Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “gstreamer0.10” source package in Precise: In Progress Bug description: Every time I install ubuntu on this hardware with ubiquity it hangs before the camera loads and after clicking continue on the "choose a user" screen. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: ubiquity 2.10.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.312 Date: Tue Mar 27 15:56:40 2012 InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gstreamer/+bug/966294/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
