GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 550001
I start cheese and the computer locks up
Last modified: 2008-09-11 16:50:50 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. start cheese 2. 3. Stack trace: no trace available Other information:
Could you please explain a little bit more what is happening.... have you tried to start cheese in the console with "cheese -v"? We definitely need some more info to know what the problem could be! Only saying that the program does not launch on your system is not a good help!
Felix, the program does launch and about 5 seconds later my computer locks up. Nothing works. mouse,keyboard- nothing. I have to shut down to get my computer back up. I shut down by holding the power button until the computer shuts off
What does top say when you start cheese? Try to open a terminal with top and see if cheese cpu load increases. How much time did you wait before to shutdown? Are you sure that it's not a temp lock due to high cpu load? How many videos do you have in the video directory? A cheese -v output would be appreciated, thanks.
top said cheese started then everything locks up. I did get a cheese-v on the screen and I took a picture with my cell phone. How do I send you the picture?
the last time cheese locked up I waited 5 minutes before I shut down. I have no videos. I am trying to use my built in web cam.
you can paste the picture here as an attachment if you want. could you also paste the file, which you can find in ~/.gnome2/cheese/log ? thanks
/home/chuck/Desktop/cheese.jpg /home/chuck/.gnome2/cheese/log hopefully this worked
you have to attach them ;) se the "create a new attachment" below?
Created attachment 117940 [details] Attached is cheese log file
from the log output i would say this is an older version of cheese. what version do you have exactly? thanks
Daniel my version of cheese is 2.22.3. Chuck
this problem may be already fixed in the 2.23.x versions, do you mind trying them out?
Daniel - I downloaded 2.23.9 and extracted it. I now need some help on how to install it. Chuck
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install then execute /usr/bin/cheese
Created attachment 118426 [details] the install failed attached is the config.log-- Chuck
(In reply to comment #15) > Created an attachment (id=118426) [edit] > the install failed attached is the config.log-- Chuck You are trying to install cheese 2.22.3 it wouldn't be any useful since it's already the one installed. Try one of the latest tarballs. To be able to compile cheese from source on ubuntu you need to run "sudo apt-get build-dep cheese" before configure. You will probably still need to install intltool 0.40 from source then.
I now down loaded 2.23.9 & installed build-dep cheese. I downloaded intltool 0.40 but do not know how to install it.
it should be a tar.gz file, extract the files, make a "./configure", "make" and "sudo make install"! There should be a INSTALL file in it too, there you can read how to do it =) should be the same 3 commands like above!
I downloaded and installed intltool 0.40.3. I then ran ./configure in cheese 2.23.92. It said my version of intltool was too old and I needed version 0.40.0. Now what? Chuck
(In reply to comment #19) > I downloaded and installed intltool 0.40.3. I then ran ./configure in cheese > 2.23.92. It said my version of intltool was too old and I needed version > 0.40.0. > Now what? Chuck You probably installed intltool in /usr/local and ubuntu doesn't like it. Go to the intltool source dir and reinstall it with ./configure --prefix=/usr make sudo make install The same for cheese, always specify the prefix to be sure it's installed in the right place.
While trying to install latest cheese could you please tell me some other info about your configuration? - What graphic card do you have? video driver? - Does this pipeline work? gst-launch v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink - And this one? gst-launch v4l2src ! xvimagesink - Does cheese still freeze if you set "X Window System (No Xv)" in gstreamer-properties as Default Output?
Thank you all for your help. I am learning my way around ubuntu. I have installed I have installed intltool 0.40.3 and cheese 2.23.91. It also locked up my computer. cheese 2.23.92. failed during the make. I will send the 92 error file and the 91 log file. my controller is an Intel corp. cantiga integrated graphics controller (rev 07) (prog-if00[vga controller]) ffmegcolorspace worked. I had a full screen video from my webcam. xvimagesink locked up my computer. i have not yet tried the x window system (no Xv)
Created attachment 118526 [details] this is the error for version 92
Created attachment 118527 [details] here is the log for version 91
(In reply to comment #22) > Thank you all for your help. No problem, thank you for not giving up ;)! > I am learning my way around ubuntu. I have > installed I have installed intltool 0.40.3 and cheese 2.23.91. It also locked > up my computer. cheese 2.23.92. failed during the make. I will send the 92 > error file and the 91 log file. > my controller is an Intel corp. cantiga integrated graphics controller (rev 07) > (prog-if00[vga controller]) > ffmegcolorspace worked. I had a full screen video from my webcam. > xvimagesink locked up my computer. i have not yet tried the x window system (no > Xv) > It seems there is an issue with XV and your graphic controller. Most probably is a video driver issue, I closed a similar bug this morning (bug #551463, marking as duplicate). If you want you can wait for the other reporter to open a bug for xorg or open a new one yourself at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg (component: Driver/Intel). Feel free to point them to this bug and keep us updated if you want. I'm sorry but, since it's not a cheese issue, I cannot help you anymore.. Anyway you should be able to use cheese setting ximagesink as Default Output in gstreamer-properties. About 2.23.92 not compiling that's a known issue too, it's fixed in svn trunk, see bug #551645, thanks for reporting it! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 551463 ***