This bug was fixed in the package thumbnailer - 1.2+14.10.20140901.is.1.2+14.10.20140814-0ubuntu2
--------------- thumbnailer (1.2+14.10.20140901.is.1.2+14.10.20140814-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium * Reintroduce the pthread linkage fix from 1.2+14.10.20140827.1-0ubuntu1, required for the package to build. -- Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:26:28 -0700 ** Changed in: thumbnailer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to thumbnailer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1363314 Title: App fails to launch on up-to-date utopic desktop Status in Dropping Letters: Confirmed Status in Music application for Ubuntu devices: Confirmed Status in Thumbnail generator for all kinds of files: New Status in Clock application for Ubuntu devices: Confirmed Status in “thumbnailer” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Seems for a few days some of the core apps which use qtmultimedia now fail to start on the desktop with output like this:- ⟫ qmlscene music-app.qml unity::action::ActionManager::ActionManager(QObject*): Could not determine application identifier. HUD will not work properly. Provide your application identifier in $APP_ID environment variable. (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GstFormat' (qmlscene:25234): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot retrieve class for invalid (unclassed) type '<invalid>' (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GstQuery' (qmlscene:25234): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot retrieve class for invalid (unclassed) type '<invalid>' (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GstObject' (qmlscene:25234): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (qmlscene:25234): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot retrieve class for invalid (unclassed) type '<invalid>' Attached is the strace output as foo.txt A simple sample app which reproduces the issue can be seen at https://code.launchpad.net/~andrew-hayzen/+junk/test-mediaplayer-app Also affected include core apps which use Audio {} such as Clock and Dropping Letters. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dropping-letters/+bug/1363314/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp