Device '/dev/video0' is busy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
cheese (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
First time I run cheese during the day, an attempt to take a picture typically results in an error being displayed on a black background in the preview pane "There was an error playing video from the webcam" (odd for two reasons, one I'm taking a picture, not video, and two... it's an error message that indicated something indeed went wrong)
(cheese:2506): cheese-WARNING **: Device '/dev/video0' is busy: gstv4l2object.
Call to S_FMT failed for YU12 @ 1280x720: Device or resource busy
webcam:
linux:
Linux Hedy 3.19.0-13-generic #13-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 9 22:56:40 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu : 15.04
cheese:
Installed: 3.14.1-2ubuntu4
Candidate: 3.14.1-2ubuntu4
The timer goes off, flash goes off, but no photo is saved in my ~/Webcam directory.
Attempts to take video, or attempts to take a few pictures using root seem to clear this problem up and after I have done so, cheese seems to be initialized correctly, and it works fine for awhile.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: cheese 3.14.1-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 16 10:20:25 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-09 (280 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140708)
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in cheese (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.