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and subject line Bug#1120967: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #877495,
regarding cheese: Not finding camera
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: cheese
Version: 3.22.1-1+b1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When using monkeyscan, guvcview, vlc,… the webcam works fine. Cheese however
only works when run as root(!).
➜ ~ cheese
(cheese:26705): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35:
The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and
shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
** Message: cheese-application.vala:211: Error during camera setup: No
device found
(cheese:26705): cheese-CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_name:
assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed
(cheese:26705): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion
'string != NULL' failed
(cheese:26705): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_schema_key_type_check:
assertion 'value != NULL' failed
(cheese:26705): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion
'value != NULL' failed
(cheese:26705): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera'
in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)'
was given
** (cheese:26705): CRITICAL **:
cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion
'device != NULL' failed
➜ ~ cheese -d /dev/video0
(cheese:26751): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35:
The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and
shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
** Message: cheese-application.vala:211: Error during camera setup: No
device found
(cheese:26751): cheese-CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_name:
assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed
(cheese:26751): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion
'string != NULL' failed
(cheese:26751): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_schema_key_type_check:
assertion 'value != NULL' failed
(cheese:26751): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion
'value != NULL' failed
(cheese:26751): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera'
in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)'
was given
** (cheese:26751): CRITICAL **:
cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion
'device != NULL' failed
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b217 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Lenovo
Integrated Camera (0.3MP)
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Sep 29 13:08 /dev/video0
I am in the video group. There are no udev rules (except for whatever
comes with Debian and for keeping sane network device names).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii cheese-common 3.22.1-1
ii gnome-video-effects 0.4.1-3
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3
ii libcheese-gtk25 3.22.1-1+b1
ii libcheese8 3.22.1-1+b1
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.26.0+dfsg-3
ii libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 1.8.2-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2+deb9u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.22.2-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.10.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1
Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii gvfs 1.30.4-1
ii yelp 3.22.0-1
Versions of packages cheese suggests:
pn gnome-video-effects-frei0r <none>
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- 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.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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