Re: [Bug 414451] Re: Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
Just wanted to take a brief moment to say that my cam works fine in Chrome/Flash on TinyChat.com. Also, you guys are awesome and very attentive. This is why Mint is such a great distro. >From my phone this time... On May 21, 2010 8:15 AM, "Vish" wrote: @Andrew Aylett : Hmm , If X is crashing , that is bad :s After the crash, does it take you to the gdm or ..? Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information and information about your hardware as well, in a terminal: apport-collect 414451 This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your bug report. Thanks in advance! -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 You receiv... -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 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
Re: [Bug 414451] Re: Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
The problem isn't worsened for me, but it's not any better, either. I'll put some details here, and also update BugTracker. Here's the lsusb output: $ lsusb | grep -i 'camera' Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera For what it's worth, I have tried installing the Microdia drivers (found them on an Ubuntu forum, had to compile them and install a kernel module), but they did not work. At this point, I cannot confirm if those drivers were official or not, or what their version number was. I can, however, confirm that I am running Ubuntu Lucid for 32-bit PCs on my Acer Aspire 5534 laptop computer, and Cheese 2.30.1 is installed on top of that. Here is the flow of my testing and the results: 1. Start Cheese. It launches fine without the X restart you described. The video stream is picked up just fine in the preview window. 2. The program defaults to non-motion photographs, so I click Take a Photo. The program hangs for about 2 seconds, then crashes. When I check the directory where these photos would be saved, the images are there, and their filenames properly reflect the time and date the photo was taken. I can still relaunch Cheese without any problems, the video preview still works just fine, and the bar at the bottom with the picture thumbnails now reflects the photo taken along with the previous crash. 3. Switch to Video mode. Click on Start Recording. The preview window that works so well when NOT recording goes black for a few seconds, then returns with a sort of split-screen/wrap-around type image (see attached screenshot). The image contains the correct contents, but it is split and wrapped, and the program locks. The window frame goes gray as unresponsive apps in Gnome do, and it remains that way no matter how long I wait. I must eventually force close Cheese. The output directory gains a properly-named OGV file where the video would have gone, but the file is zero bytes long, containing no data. 4. Switch to Multiple Photos Mode. Click Take Multiple Photos. This feature works perfectly. Cheese does not crash here like it does in regular, single Photo Mode. I even get the nifty flash effect where the screen goes to a semi-transparent white color. No issues here at all. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Aylett wrote: > I'm afraid it's worse -- trying to start up cheese in Lucid will cause > the X server to restart before any video is displayed. I'm not sure > whether it's the same bug or a different one; if it's different then it > obviously prevents me from testing this one :). > > -- > Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- The issue is, we do have whole cultures and subcultures that have - based largely on religious convictions - very distorted notions of how human beings can flourish. We have people who think you should throw acid - battery acid - in the faces of little girls for trying to learn to read in Afghanistan. And so clearly there are real-world correlates of that kind of thinking, that kind of orientation. You know, it's not our job to not judge it and say, "Well, to each his own, everyone has to work out his own strategy for human fulfillment." It's just not true. There are people who are wrong about human fulfillment. ~ Sam Harris ** Attachment added: "screenshot1.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48502759/screenshot1.png -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 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
[Bug 414451] Re: Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
Vish sent me an email asking for an update now that I'm using Ubuntu Lucid on my laptop. He complained of X restarting when Cheese launches. Here's what I wrote back to him: The problem isn't worsened for me, but it's not any better, either. I'll put some details here, and also update BugTracker. Here's the lsusb output: $ lsusb | grep -i 'camera' Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera For what it's worth, I have tried installing the Microdia drivers (found them on an Ubuntu forum, had to compile them and install a kernel module), but they did not work. At this point, I cannot confirm if those drivers were official or not, or what their version number was. I can, however, confirm that I am running Ubuntu Lucid for 32-bit PCs on my Acer Aspire 5534 laptop computer, and Cheese 2.30.1 is installed on top of that. Here is the flow of my testing and the results: 1 - Start Cheese. It launches fine without the X restart you described. The video stream is picked up just fine in the preview window. 2 - The program defaults to non-motion photographs, so I click Take a Photo. The program hangs for about 2 seconds, then crashes. When I check the directory where these photos would be saved, the images are there, and their filenames properly reflect the time and date the photo was taken. I can still relaunch Cheese without any problems, the video preview still works just fine, and the bar at the bottom with the picture thumbnails now reflects the photo taken along with the previous crash. 3 - Switch to Video mode. Click on Start Recording. The preview window that works so well when NOT recording goes black for a few seconds, then returns with a sort of split-screen/wrap-around type image (see attached screenshot). The image contains the correct contents, but it is split and wrapped, and the program locks. The window frame goes gray as unresponsive apps in Gnome do, and it remains that way no matter how long I wait. I must eventually force close Cheese. The output directory gains a properly-named OGV file where the video would have gone, but the file is zero bytes long, containing no data. 4 - Switch to Multiple Photos Mode. Click Take Multiple Photos. This feature works perfectly. Cheese does not crash here like it does in regular, single Photo Mode. I even get the nifty flash effect where the screen goes to a semi-transparent white color. No issues here at all. ** Attachment added: "screenshot1.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48502805/screenshot1.png -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 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
[Bug 414451] Re: Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
I experience this problem, only without the after-effect of a disabled webcam. I'm on an Acer Aspire 5534-1121 (full notebook with Athlon X2 proc, plenty of RAM, etc.). The lsusb command gives this output for my webcam: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera I have attached the output for the camera from lsusb -v (lots of data) in a bz2 file along with some other things. I ran this command on the terminal: cheese --verbose --gst-debug-level=3 > cheesestdout.log 2> cheeseerr.log Those two files are also attached. So are two screenshots of the Gnome System Monitor with the cheese process highlighted, one after I pressed the Start Recording button, and one from after I pressed the Stop Recording button. One other minor differences in the way I'm experiencing this bug is that when I press Start Recording, the camera begins to fade in an image from black, but when it does, it's split, as though it gathered the right picture, then shifted it 150 pixels to the right, wrapping whatever got cut off on the right side to the left. Also, the image never completely fades in, just freezes out at about 50% opacity or so. ** Attachment added: "Various outputs of cheese" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37166021/cheese.tar.bz2 -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 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
[Bug 414451] Re: Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
I should also mention that I'm actually running this in Linux Mint 8 (Helena), which is remixed from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). My version of cheese is 2.28.1 according to cheese --version And I installed it from the Mint repositories, not from the Launchpad PPA/Bazaar subversion. -- Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451 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
[Bug 574693] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid
Confirmed. This problem also occurs when transferring the contents of a single directory with multiple files of any size. I have also experienced it when moving a single file (I had tried tar.gz-ing the directory that was having problems). At this point, I would say that this probably has no relationship to the type, quantity, or size of the files being transferred because I have reproduced the problems under more or less every combination I can think of. While it does appear to be somewhat random, it also appears to happen more often than not when transferring data. I can also confirm that this happens when providing a specific IP address over a local network as well as when using DNS. My FTP server, for what it's worth, is using the default port, 21. -- nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574693 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
