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and subject line Bug#1120967: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #629248,
regarding cheese: segmentation fault when permission is denied to video device
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Package: cheese
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal
When the user has access rights to /dev/video0 then cheese runs correctly:
$ ls -la /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jun 5 00:14 /dev/video0
$ groups
nmarci dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev
$ cheese
Whent the user has not the necessary rights then cheese crashes with
segmentation fault right after startup:
$ sudo chmod 600 /dev/video0
$ ls -la /dev/video0
crw-------+ 1 root video 81, 0 Jun 5 00:14 /dev/video0
$ cheese
Segmentation fault
My first investigations leaded to cheese_camera_create_camera_source_bin()
function in libcheese/cheese-camera.c , where the library function
gst_parse_bin_from_description() is called. I guess this library function shall
return NULL if an error occured, according to
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gstreamer-GstParse.html#gst-parse-bin-from-description
. As far as my investigations gone so far the function
gst_parse_bin_from_description() does not return NULL when the /dev/video0 is
not accessible. Later on this causes segmentation fault in cheese.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii cheese-common 2.30.1-2 Common files for the Cheese tool t
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.30-1 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.24-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.30-1 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii libcheese-gtk18 2.30.1-2 A tool to take pictures and videos
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2-17 2.30.2-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.30-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgudev-1.0-0 164-3 GObject-based wrapper library for
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gvfs 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - ser
cheese suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 44.1-5+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package cheese has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1120967
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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