This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app -
0.23+16.10.20160928-0ubuntu1
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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.10.20160928-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
[ Andrew Hayzen ]
* Change use of ActionList.actions to ActionList.children and use
modelData in Repeaters (LP: #1624470)
** Branch linked: lp:~osomon/webbrowser-app/camera-desktop-apparmor
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Title:
camera not detected when running confined on desktop
To manage
** Changed in: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) => (unassigned)
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** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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Title:
camera not detected when running confined on desktop
To
The explicit /dev/ denial was to fix a noisy denial that was confusing
users and so we decided to silence the denial. Due to the way apparmor
'deny' works, you can't undo an explicit deny rule (deny rules are
evaluated after allow rules).
There are a few ways forward:
1. fix webbrowser-app's sed
** Changed in: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
** Changed in: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Tentatively added an apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu task to clarify whether
it’s acceptable to have the "microphone" and "camera" policy groups
conflict on /dev/.
** Also affects: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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I’ve tested Jamie’s suggestion, but that didn’t improve things.
After some tinkering, I found that commenting out the following explicit denial
in the browser profile allows access to my USB webcam:
# QAudioRecorder needs this. We might have to allow this later, but for now
# just silence
** Summary changed:
- camera not detected when running on desktop
+ camera not detected when running confined on desktop
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Title:
camera not
