Comment 9 for bug 543758

Unfortunately I’m no longer in a position to reproduce this bug. Feel free to close it.

Sent on the run; please excuse my brevity.

> On 22 Jan 2019, at 03:11, Paul White <email address hidden> wrote:
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> ** Changed in: cheese (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
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> Title:
> cheese crashed with SIGSEGV when webcam is already in use
>
> Status in Cheese:
> Expired
> Status in cheese package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: cheese
>
> Not much to say. I have recently (yesterday) upgraded from 9.10 to
> 10.4 Beta 1. I just installed Cheese and it crashed after about 5
> seconds. The problem was that mplayer was open and the same time and
> "reading" the webcam ie I had run the command "mplayer /dev/v4l/by-id
> /usb-0402_USB2.0_Camera-video-index0" and that was still running while
> I tried opening cheese. Shutting down Mplayer fixed the problem and
> Cheese is working now.
>
> So the problems seems to be that Cheese throws a segfault when
> accessing a camera that is already in use.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Mar 21 23:04:18 2010
> Disassembly: => 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cheese
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: cheese 2.29.92-0ubuntu1
> ProcCmdline: cheese
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=da_DK.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> PC (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
> SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: cheese
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideo4linux2.so
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgstbase-0.10.so.0
> Title: cheese crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
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