Since a recent update in Arch Linux to gtk3/clutter/cogl, parole (built from git) segfaults when the clutter backend is enabled. Not using the "--enable-clutter" configuration parameter makes parole work again. This is probably related to clutter migration to gdk backend (from x11)- see: https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/ configure script results: Parole Media Player 0.8.0git.6eecaeb ==================================== Installation: ============= prefix: /usr pixmapsdir: /usr/share/parole/pixmaps Debug: no Building plugin api docs: yes GStreamer API version: 1.0 GTK+ version: GTK+-3 Optional dependencies: ====================== Clutter Backend: yes Taglib: yes Plugins to build: ================= Notify: yes System Tray icon: yes MPRIS2: yes CLI output: (parole:16161): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? (parole:16161): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? (parole:16161): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized? STRACE output (last bit): write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICA"..., 94 (parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? ) = 94 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICA"..., 94 (parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? ) = 94 write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-WARNING"..., 94 (parole:16388): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized? ) = 94 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0xd8} --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ Segmentation fault (core dumped) GDB output: (parole:16947): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? (parole:16947): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter? (parole:16947): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized? [New Thread 0x7fffe6d7b700 (LWP 16957)] [New Thread 0x7fffe8393700 (LWP 16956)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff4eafa71 in cogl_pipeline_new () from /usr/lib/libcogl.so.20 GDB Backtrace: #0 0x00007ffff4eafa71 in cogl_pipeline_new () from /usr/lib/libcogl.so.20 #1 0x00007ffff56113f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0 #2 0x00007ffff0ae6f49 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff0aca2d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff5588dfb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0 #5 0x00007ffff0aca631 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007ffff0acc685 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #7 0x00007ffff0acc9c1 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #8 0x0000000000425791 in parole_clutter_init (clutter=0x864ef0) at parole-clutter.c:337 #9 0x00007ffff0ae6f49 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007ffff0aca847 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007ffff0acc685 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0x00007ffff0acc9c1 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #13 0x000000000042581d in parole_clutter_new (conf_obj=0xa8e180) at parole-clutter.c:349 #14 0x000000000041a129 in parole_player_init (player=0xad02b0) at parole-player.c:3687 #15 0x00007ffff0ae6f49 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0x00007ffff0aca847 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #17 0x00007ffff0acc685 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0x00007ffff0acc9c1 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #19 0x000000000041b80d in parole_player_new (client_id=0x0) at parole-player.c:3811 #20 0x0000000000414fbb in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe988) at main.c:344 Packages: Name : clutter Version : 1.22.0-2 (upgrade from 1.20.0-4) Name : gtk3 Version : 3.16.2-1 (upgrade from 3.14.9-1) Name : cogl (upgrade from 1.18.2-1) Version : 1.20.0-1 Name : clutter-gst (upgrade from 2.0.14-4) Version : 3.0.4-1 Name : clutter-gtk (upgrade from 1.6.0-1) Version : 1.6.0-2 Kernel: Linux archer 3.19.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*** Bug 11965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reverting to the old backends fixes this, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743085
Updates to clutter (1.22.4-1) and clutter-gtk (1.6.2-1) have not fixed the issue for me. Also, I don't have an nvidia card but an Intel one. I'm currently building parole without the --enable-clutter parameter for it to work. Forcing the x11 clutter backend via "CLUTTER_BACKEND=x11 parole" does not work either.
@Toz: What Jackson meant was switching to either the X11 or XV backend in Parole, not clutter itself. You can do this for instance from the command line (or xfce4-settings-editor): xfconf-query -c parole -p /video/videosink -s "xv"
Reverting clutter's backend change will also fix this issue, at least for me