libgstreamer0.10-0 - cheese does not open and has memory leak.

[Brian Buchanan]

I was told to file a bug report against gstreamer from my original bug report Bug #849474 about Cheese.

When trying to open Cheese the GUI does not appear and the proccess for Cheese starts to use up ram at a very fast rate.

I am unsure what is needed in the report so I have installed libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg as instructed and then done another backtrace on Cheese (attached).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 3 16:08:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-03 (0 days ago)

[Brian Buchanan (nighthawk-uk)]

Sorry I think I attached the old cheese backtrace, this is the current one with libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg installed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Charlie Shaw (n2924-dotcom)]

same experience using a 11.10 system, Lenovo laptop, in-built camera.

Attached from top shows how cheese INITIALLY takes near 100% of the CPU (Celeron 900 @ 2.2GHz), then 'not much' whilst near all the free RAM (system has 1GByte) AND swap space is consumed by cheese.

No other applications running; tested was initiated on a newly booted system. Skype + VLC + guvcview all 'seem to work fine'.

System becomes un-responsive (due to it thrashing the disk) until a run-away process killer kills cheese & recovers the memory + swap space.