detail that should have been with the attachment: I have same issue with Ubuntu 11.10 on a Lenovo laptop with built-in camera; same Gtk warning message as indicated by the OP, but NO GUI or splash screen visible as cheese is started, so no way to access any 'check config' commands.
If I turn on the 'video call' option in Skype, camera works fine; but it is usually off as link BW is 'not good enough'; only apps running when cheese app is tried are F'Fox, T'bird, & the terminal console. Running with the --gst-debug=5 log option as suggested by hychen above generates a *** 400 *** Mbyte file; after the start-up period, cheese is taking over 80% of the CPU (Celeron 2.2GHz), log file size seems static; 'nothing magic' happens. There must be a lot of duplicate info/messages in the log as it has compressed down to less than 1MByte..(attached) I see a forum post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2068818 where the OP (squakie in the forum) states his issue (with 12.04) was solved on upgrade to 12.10. Is it possible to get a backport / work-around for earlier versions ? (limited capabilities of my platform preclude moving to 3-D desktops). Bugzilla etc in other environments I have worked with give links to the changeset that fixed whatever issue was reported originally.. FTR, other info from my system: dmesg |grep 'video' [ 0.206120] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device [ 12.862718] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 12.895972] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Lenovo EasyCamera (090c:3371) [ 13.005371] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 7166.558394] PM: resume of drv:uvcvideo dev:2-3:1.0 complete after 673.003 msecs [ 7166.558400] PM: resume of drv:uvcvideo dev:2-3:1.1 complete after 672.982 msecs ~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 090c:3371 Feiya Technology Corp. ~$ lsmod |grep 'video' uvcvideo 67271 0 videodev 85626 1 uvcvideo video 19069 1 i915 ~$ lsmod |grep 'i915' i915 513895 3 drm_kms_helper 32889 1 i915 drm 192194 4 i915,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915 video 19069 1 i915 ~$ ls -alrt /dev/video* crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2013-02-16 08:51 /dev/video0 ~$ uname -a Linux a_user 3.0.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 4 12:17:31 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- 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/930671 Title: video blank and menus greyed out in cheese Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Webcam (Microsoft LifeCam Cinema) works properly in guvcview, but not in cheese on 11.10 32-bit. Worked in cheese on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. Opening cheese from the terminal gives the following series of messages: $ cheese (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel (cheese:2740): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel ** (cheese:2740): WARNING **: Could not negotiate format The cheese window opens successfully, but the video is blank (black) and all of the buttons are greyed out. All of the menu entries are greyed out as well, with the exception of: Cheese -> Quit Edit -> Move to Trash Edit -> Move All to Trash Help -> Contents Help -> About It is not even possible to access Preferences to see if changing any options would help. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: cheese 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-genusername 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Feb 11 10:48:02 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cheese InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011) MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 RelatedPackageVersions: cheese 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 cheese-common 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/29/2004 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1008 dmi.board.name: A7N8X dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: REV 1.xx dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufactture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSA7N8XDeluxeACPIBIOSRev1008:bd03/29/2004:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pnA7N8X:pvrREV1.xx:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnA7N8X:rvrREV1.xx:cvnChassisManufactture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: A7N8X dmi.product.version: REV 1.xx dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:075d Microsoft Corp. 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