Bug#697854: closed by Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> (Re: Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video)

[Ralph Ronnquist]

Ok; No luck with X11 redirection either, and now it segfaults. The 
following is from my run attempt of cheese under gdb:
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/cheese...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/cheese
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3483)]
[Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3483) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3484)]
[Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3484) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3485)]
[Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3485) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3486)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 3487)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 3488)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe2ffd700 (LWP 3489)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe27fc700 (LWP 3490)]
[Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3486) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3494)]
[Thread 0x7fffec017700 (LWP 3494) exited]
The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
   (Details: serial 77 error_code 11 request_code 132 minor_code 19)
   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)
[Thread 0x7fffe2ffd700 (LWP 3489) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe27fc700 (LWP 3490) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 3488) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 3487) exited]

Program exited with code 01.
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This machine is hereby being demoted to Ubuntu 12.04 32bit (though with 
xfce rather than gnome) .... fingers crossed :-)

cheers,

Ralph.

On 11/01/13 11:50, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 10.01.2013 19:15, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> reopen 697854
>> reassign 697854 cheese
>> thanks
>> # dear cheese maintainers,
>> # below is some context, please read the full bug log for full context ;)
>>
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
>>> Well, as far as I can see it's a problem with the X server software
>>> rather than anything else, or the particular collection of packages I
>>> got on that installation. It happens with both cheese and skype, which
>>> are the things I've tried, while guvcview fails to run completely, with
>>> the note "Fatal:g_thread NOT supported' (a different problem).
>>>
>>> Perhaps you would you be able to direct me to a better place to lodge
>>> this, if this is the wrong place?
>>
>> as this bug also occurs with cheese, I've reopened and reassigned it there.
>> Thanks for your help in tracking this error down!
>>
>
> Why should a problem in skype be a symptom for a cheese problem? We
> rather re-assign that to general or close it again. The bug report is
> not really useful as is.
>
>