Cheese fails to start with "Failed to negotiate format" error

[Satchit Bhogle]

OS: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric stable 32-bit
Application: Cheese 3.2.0

After opening Cheese normally via the Dash, it starts, but no video shows up.
Terminal output:
satchit@awesomeness:~$ cheese

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:15131): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy

** (cheese:15131): WARNING **: Device '/dev/video0' cannot capture at 640x480

** (cheese:15131): WARNING **: Could not negotiate format

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

Problems discovered with webcamera after it failed in Skype as well. After reboot, the webcam resumed functioning, and this error no longer occurs.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Closing the issue

[Bogdan Stanciu (bstanciu)]

Hello,

I just confirmed this one (as opposed to file a new bug), I hope its OK...

I have this error on two ThinkPads T42, with Ubuntu 12.04. I installed cheese, and the window stays black.
Starting from the terminal, I get several (as above) Gtk-WARNING messages and finally the warning 'could not negotiate format'.

I used a Logitech E2500 series webcam and a Creative NX Ultra one.

Thank you,
Bogdan

[Benjamin Mintz (benjabean1)]

Bump!

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

This may be related to bug 1018020

[Alfred Scamman (dcat-of-fm)]

I don't think so. Unlike the bug 1018020, skype and other programs are working fine, it's only cheese that's failing with this one. Unfortunately so far only cheese has the features I want out of available Ubuntu desktop programs.

I note that even preferences are unavailable (grayed out).

[Alfred Scamman (dcat-of-fm)]

Oops, sorry, didn't see the duplicate of 930671 notice... agreed.