[Bug 34232] Totem crashes all the system when opening a file

[JCB]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34232

Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Totem crashes all the system when opening a file.

So far I can only afirm it happens with divx movies.

When I open the file, the Totem window appears but soon the mouse cursor
disapears and my X server crashes.

The screen becomes dark and it is like the X session is infinitely
restarting.

It is impossible to take back the control of the system - no key
responds, even CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE - and the only way to get out of this
is to hard reboot, which could be painful for the file system.

I can tell the same problem appear before when I was on a different OS :
Suse Linux 10.

So the problem doesn't concern only Ubuntu.

And it happens either on Gnome or KDE.

Of course, in such a situation I don't get any error message - or I
don't know how to get it.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Jean-Christophe Baptiste