Bug#1069079: gnome-snapshot: No image captured, viewfinder stays black

[Matthias Geiger]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:38:36 +0200 Ralph Aichinger <ra at h5.or.at> wrote:
 > Sorry, forgot: Cheese starts up fine and gets a picture from my camera
 > (built in camera of Surface Laptop model 1867). Console messages from
 > cheese, program works without problem:
 >
 > ralph at surface:~$ cheese
 > [19:09:28.423130575] [95032] WARN IPAManager ipa_manager.cpp:154 No
 > IPA found in '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcamera'
 > [19:09:28.423207194] [95032] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:284
 > libcamera v0.2.0
 >
 > (cheese:95032): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 08:37:33.291:
 > gst_structure_get_value: assertion 'structure != NULL' failed
 >
 >

 >

Hi Ralph,

thanks for the detailed bugreport. Would you mind submitting that to 
upstream ?

They are more likely to know the exact reason why snapshot is not 
working as there are a lot of factors at play here. pipewire 1.0.5 was 
supposed to resolve most issues but not all, it seems.

best,

-- 
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer

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