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and subject line Bug#1120967: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #825464,
regarding cheese: Video appears only for a brief instant after startup
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825464: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825464
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: cheese
Version: 3.20.2-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After I open Cheese, the video appears for a brief instant (perhaps only a
single frame or so) and then immediately goes back to a black screen that says
"There was an error playing video from the webcam"
I get the following error message in the standard error stream:
(cheese:10630): cheese-WARNING **: Internal data flow error.:
gstbasesrc.c(2948): gst_base_src_loop ():
/GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin28/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src1:
streaming task paused, reason not-negotiated (-4)
One workaround I found was running cheese under "sudo". That causes the video
to appear just fine and the "internal dataflow error" message goes away.
However, I suspect that this is a bug in cheese and not just me having the
wrong permissions set up. Firstly, there is a brief glimpse of video when I run
cheese without sudo, so it appears to have permissions to bet to the video in
the first place. Secondly, in other applications I tested (guvcview and Skype)
the webcam seems to work just fine, without requiring me to use sudo.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.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 3.20.2-1
ii gnome-video-effects 0.4.1-3
ii libc6 2.22-9
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3
ii libcheese-gtk25 3.20.2-1
ii libcheese8 3.20.2-1
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.26.0-2
ii libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 1.8.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.34.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.1-1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.20.2-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.8.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.20.4-1
Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1
ii gvfs 1.28.2-1
ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.3-1
ii yelp 3.20.1-1
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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