cheese crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI___libc_free()

[Jan D]

Cheese (Webcam Booth) crashes when trying to RECORD VIDEO. Live view OK, photo shooting OK.
This happens on 2 different computers, and 3 different webcams.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: cheese 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 5 15:11:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cheese
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120820)
ProcCmdline: cheese
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fdfc23a65bc <__GI___libc_free+60>: mov (%rax),%rdi
 PC (0x7fdfc23a65bc) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x7fdfc4000000) in non-readable VMA region: 0x7fdfc3f44000-0x7fdfc4143000 ---p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgee.so.2.0.0
 destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading VMA /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgee.so.2.0.0
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: cheese
StacktraceTop:
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x7fdfc4fdbcf5) at malloc.c:2982
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: cheese crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI___libc_free()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x7fdfc4fdbcf5) at malloc.c:2982
 cheese_main_window_update_timeout_layer (self=<optimized out>) at src/cheese-window.c:2757
 _cheese_main_window_update_timeout_layer_gsource_func (self=<error reading variable: value has been optimized out>) at src/cheese-window.c:2655
 g_timeout_dispatch (source=source@entry=0x2d96d60, callback=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c:4026
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x1b62ad0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.0/./glib/gmain.c:2715

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Jup, thank you Dmitry for making public.

[Emma Marshall (system76chick)]

I don't know if this helps, but I was recording in 1080p. Cheese would record for 1 second but the video playback would be black and says "no data stream" but I could take photos with no problem. I'm using an external Logitech 1080p webcam with USB connection.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Taking a look at this.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

David King has closed the upstream report as dub of

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687042

which has the comment:

David King [cheese developer] 2012-10-30 15:52:45 UTC

Fixed in master and gnome-3-6 branches as commits
82603a97f2a96294167a260f5ff14bbaed2a24b7 and
e2938847c7bca93bd9f59d009de78e0cec8d2745.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Well, this fixes the crash, but cheese video still doesn't work, I'm not sure if it's worth the upload just for this.

[frenchy82 (cartes)]

With 3.6.0-0ubuntu1.1~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1 there is a 0 octet file recorded and we have this this message on the console
Cannot connect to server socket err = Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started

(cheese:2078): cheese-WARNING **: Jack server not found

(cheese:2078): cheese-WARNING **: Impossible d'initialiser la bibliothèque de prise en charge.

`menu_proxy_module_load': cheese: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

(cheese:2078): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Any updates on this?

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Micah Gersten: BTW, I installed cheese from your PPA and it does not crashes anymore. But it does not record video a needs to be restarted to be able to record video again.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Right, that's why I didn't upload this yet since it doesn't record video.

[Corey Bell (of-8ore0-an)]

My Cheese is doing the same thing, is there any help, for this bug?

[Oier Mees (oier)]

I also can't record video on Ubuntu 12.10 6 bits and cheese 3.6.0-0ubuntu1.

[rotsee (leo-wallentin)]

Does anyone know a good alternative to Cheese, while we are waiting for this bug to be fixed?

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

I filed a bug upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/post_bug.cgi

[BoD (bod-c)]

This bugzilla link is broken.

[Mike Sandfort (cute-moniker)]

This bug also affects me: 12.10 amd64.

[David Ross (sw1djd-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm using the Youtube webcam recording option to make do until this is fixed. Cheese isn't working on my NC10 netbook or my Intel Core 2 Duo iMac both running 12.10

[jkw (jkw)]

Affects me too. Seems to be a issue related to Jack of what I can see in the log.

[jimmy the saint (lowid95)]

I spent an afternoon messing around with this - AND I FIGURED OUT THE FIX.

the package "gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio" is not listed as a dependency for cheese, but without it the whole program crashes while complaining about jack server.

After installing gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, cheese behaves as it should for me.

I will be filing a separate bug, and referencing this bug.

[jimmy the saint (lowid95)]

The bug report for the missing dependency is available at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1132316

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Oh yes, you are right, thanks, now it works:-).

[Caio Maximino de Oliveira (caio-maximino)]

No dice for me on the gstreamer installation walkaround

[tcaritey (tcaritey)]

It Worked for me

[MBi (stretchion)]

How it worked for you no solution is offered here ?? or maybe I'm not seeing it ?

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Hm, I installed gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio on Saucy and it does not help.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

When self-compiling Cheese version 3.10.2, this no longer occurs. (uninstall distribution cheese and libcheese beforehand, they clas otherwise).

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Actually, installing cheese 3.10 from GNOME 3 ppa solves this. So this is going to be fixed whne cheese 3.10 hits ubuntu (I am not sure if that is going to be 14.04 or 14.10).

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

(just make sure you upgrade libcheese as well, that is actually the package that needs to be updated)

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

I'm experiencing this in 15.04 Beta again. Please let me know if you need any more deteails from me?

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Still getting this when starting Cheese.