This may be a long shot, but I encountered another problem on 17.10 with cheese: It starts with the message "There was an error playing video from the webcam".
Upgrading to version 1.12.6-1 of the libv4l-0 and libv4lconvert0 packages (currently in bionic) fixed that problem. If you want to test, they are available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/v4l-utils -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710370 Title: Cheese crashes on launch in Ubuntu 17.10 if no camera device is present To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/1710370/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
