I hope that the attached data, read in conjunction with these comments, will aid diagnosis. It may be that the fault does not lie with Cheese.
Cheese worked OK for me in the early alphas of Intrepid, then stopped working with the symptoms described above. The first thing I noticed was that it took an abnormally long time before the animated paw-print image disappeared, and it seemed to be opening the camera device twice. A significant breakthrough came when I tried to change the capture resolution to the minimum. As usual, Cheese went into a futex-wait and refused to respond further. However, when I restarted it, it worked OK, displaying low-res camera information and taking snapshots. I increased the resolution in steps until at 320x240 it packed up with a futex-wait. The attachment contains the following files: cheese1.out: result of cheese --verbose --gst-debug-level=3 2>cheese1.out cheese2.out: ditto, but I changed the resolution (successfully) to 176x144 (next-to-lowest resolution). envdata.txt: data about the environment, versions etc. It seems to me that cheese is no longer able to cope with the data stream except at the lowest resolutions. ** Attachment added: "Debug output from cheese, version info" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20130069/cheese.tar.gz -- cheese webcam : no video display and hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
