Cheese crashes on launch in Ubuntu 17.10 if no camera device is present

[AsciiWolf]

Cheese crashes on launch in Ubuntu 17.10 if the computer does not have any camera device connected.

(cheese:3620): cheese-CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_name: assertion 'CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed

(cheese:3620): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

(cheese:3620): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3620): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_schema_key_type_check: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3620): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(cheese:3620): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_set_value: key 'camera' in 'org.gnome.Cheese' expects type 's', but a GVariant of type '(null)' was given

(cheese:3620): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

** (cheese:3620): CRITICAL **: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Still the same issue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Done.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Still happening on the latest Bionic build.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

I have just tested this on Fedora 27 under Wayland and Cheese works correctly when no camera is connected. So I am not sure if this is really an upstream issue.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

This may be a long shot, but I encountered another problem on 17.10 with cheese: It starts with the message "There was an error playing video from the webcam".

Upgrading to version 1.12.6-1 of the libv4l-0 and libv4lconvert0 packages (currently in bionic) fixed that problem. If you want to test, they are available in this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/v4l-utils

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

I was able to reproduce this issue on the latest Fedora Rawhide under Wayland so this is an upstream issue.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Artful is EOL, and I just deleted the above mentioned PPA.