I think the problem is that opencv pacakges do not install the haarcascades, this also impacts Digikam 2.0.0 beta 1 see here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262074
** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #262074 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262074 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenShot Developers, which is subscribed to OpenShot Video Editor. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459940 Title: Launching totem when frei0r-plugins is installed shows: Could not load classifier cascade Status in GStreamer Plugins (Bad): Confirmed Status in NULL Project: Invalid Status in OpenShot Video Editor: Invalid Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “frei0r” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “opencv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Starting empathy from the menu does nothing. From the terminal I get the following error message: ERROR: Could not load classifier cascade /usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml Virhe uudelleenskannatessa rekisteriä , child terminated by signal Run 'empathy --help' to see a full list of available command line options. (empathy:3052): empathy-WARNING **: Error in empathy init: Virhe uudelleenskannatessa rekisteriä , child terminated by signal (Virhe uudelleenskannatessa rekisteriä = Error in rescanning the registry) EDIT: Lucid status is in comment 26. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 24 20:22:39 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3) Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: empathy Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

