Redhat has a similar bug that video device is busy when doing video recording.
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670257 Gstreamer bugs: - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670257 Explain for the patch: When recording video, Cheese uses gsteamer to set caps, meanwhile cmaera device re-init while caps settings. because the buffer is not freed and kernel complain that camera device is busy, so cheese hangs. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #670257 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670257 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041432 Title: cheese and camorama freeze system when recording video Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in OEM Priority Project quantal series: New Status in OEM Priority Project r-series series: New Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Quantal 3.5.0-11 becomes totally unresponsive when starting a video from the built in webcam. Both mouse and keyboard are frozen. I tried both 32 and 64 bit versions of both cheese and camorama and the result was the same. This was not an issue with Precise. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: cheese 3.5.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Aug 24 21:57:00 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-17 (8 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1041432/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
