It used to work on this machine. What happens now is that it comes up,
displays the user interface and then goes away. The only thing I have been
able to find is the following message in auth.log:
Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched
rules; type="method_call",
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> It used to work on this machine. What happens now is that it comes up,
> displays the user interface and then goes away. The only thing I have been
> able to find is the following message in auth.log:
>
> Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>> It used to work on this machine. What happens now is that it comes up,
>> displays the user interface and then goes away. The only thing I have been
>> able to find is the following me
Forgot to answer a couple of your questions.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>
> Did this start after you updated?
>
Not sure as the only times I have used it was to check if it worked. Like
for my presentation at East Side tomorrow.
> Try to remove and re-add cheese,
>
More clues - from syslog after toggling the webcamm off and back on:
Jul 8 23:09:15 damselfish kernel: [ 2974.996483] usb 1-8: USB disconnect,
address 4
Jul 8 23:09:15 damselfish kernel: [ 2975.385458] usbcore: deregistering
interface driver uvcvideo
Jul 8 23:09:23 damselfish kernel: [ 2982.907
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1
> matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.34" (uid=1000 pid=3831
> comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a")
> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" mem
Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
>> Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1
>> matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.34" (uid=1000 pid=3831
>> comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a")
>> interface="org.freedeskt
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1
> > matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.34" (uid=1000 pid=3831
> > comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet
It appears as if your problem is related to the dbus-daemon. Cheese
uses it. Your video card and driver are seen just fine. Try an
external camera just to get it going for tomorrow night?
I am assuming this has to do with a partial update of some of the dbus
issues. That link is the bug tracke
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:44 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send
> message, 1
> > matched rules; type="method_call", sen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:44 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > > Jul 8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send
> >
From: Dazed_75
[cheese snippage]
>> Thanks for the info Ted! Sorry I misunderstod.
> So, back to the drawing board. Lordy I do hate silent failures.
> Unfortunately, it is all too common to not convey any useful
> information to the poor user!
strace and strace -ff can be your friends if the p
I have nothing good to contribute here but if I hadn't used cheese and
knew what it was I would think the thread subject was strange. Even
now I chuckle every time I see it
On 7/15/09, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:44 -0700, Daz
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Dazed_75
> [cheese snippage]
> >> Thanks for the info Ted! Sorry I misunderstod.
> > So, back to the drawing board. Lordy I do hate silent failures.
> > Unfortunately, it is all too common to not convey any useful
> > information to th
From: Dazed_75
> Matt Graham wrote:
>> strace and strace -ff can be your friends if the process
>> that's failing silently is dying because of a missing file,
>> or a file that's not where it's supposed to be.
>> The main problem is that this approach won't help much with
>> programs that communi
I've had the same problem with Cheese across several distro's now, and
have just given up on whatever being broken being so. I've got a Dell
xps m1330 with known cheese issues (dell linux list confirms numerous
users with issue) that thus far no one has actually fixed yet, mostly
because there are
Short Answer: I had to set gstreamer properties to use X Window System (No
XV) as the plugin for Default Video Output. This may be another effect of
the Intel Video drivers Jaunty seems to have trouble with.
Long Version:
I had decided the X-Windows call failure was probably associat
Wow, right on - first time ive actually seen cheese work for me! Thanks
for that tidbit, worked quite well here. I'd long ago given up on
it. :)
Now I might follow up with why the camera in my m1330 dell will only
work in the lowest graphics mode... meh, always something.
-mb
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