Bug#696727: cheese does not start with Gtk-Warning

[Jonathan Dowland]

severity 696727 important
thanks

(Downgrading since no evidence that it fails for the majority)

On 28 Mar 2013, at 18:56, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:

> After that I'd try with another tool
> that doesn't use gstreamer, then we can pinpoint whether this is a gstreamer bug
> or not.
Already done
> 
> I remember from when I did video integration in empathy that some webcams will
> only work once, and after that you have to unload the kernel module and load it
> again for them to work. If that was the case here, the problem could be that
> cheese is not stopping them properly.

Cheese fails on first attempt after module reload without invoking any other webcam software first.

Thanks