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Cheese screenshot white screen and video freezes

Bug #1949183 reported by lotuspsychje
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 22.04 development branch with kernel 5.13.0-19-generic on wayland and Xorg

When taking webcam pictures with cheese on wayland and xorg, it takes the picture
but gives me a few seconds of white screen after the shot

When taking a webcam video it takes a freezed picture instead of a video
and has problems to push the stop recording button
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
MachineType: Notebook N7x0WU
Package: cheese 3.38.0-4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-19.19-generic 5.13.14
RelatedPackageVersions:
 cheese 3.38.0-4
 cheese-common 3.38.0-4
Tags: wayland-session jammy gstreamer-error
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 01/07/2019
dmi.bios.release: 7.13
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 7.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: N7x0WU
dmi.board.vendor: Notebook
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.ec.firmware.release: 7.14
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr7.13:bd01/07/2019:br7.13:efr7.14:svnNotebook:pnN7x0WU:pvrNotApplicable:skuNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnN7x0WU:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: N7x0WU
dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0025 Intel Corp. Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b59e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Chicony USB2.0 Camera
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
MachineType: Notebook N7x0WU
Package: cheese 3.38.0-4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-19.19-generic 5.13.14
RelatedPackageVersions:
 cheese 3.38.0-4
 cheese-common 3.38.0-4
Tags: wayland-session jammy gstreamer-error
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 01/07/2019
dmi.bios.release: 7.13
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 7.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: N7x0WU
dmi.board.vendor: Notebook
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.ec.firmware.release: 7.14
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr7.13:bd01/07/2019:br7.13:efr7.14:svnNotebook:pnN7x0WU:pvrNotApplicable:skuNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnN7x0WU:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: N7x0WU
dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0025 Intel Corp. Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b59e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Chicony USB2.0 Camera
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : CheeseDebug.txt.gz

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tags: added: apport-collected gstreamer-error jammy wayland-session
description: updated
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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcCpuinfo.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : lspci.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : CheeseDebug.txt.gz

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcCpuinfo.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : lspci.txt

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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote : Re: Cheese screenshot white screen and video freezes [wayland]

(cheese:957896): Gdk-WARNING **: 12:03:44.170: Native Windows taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't get a picture from 'file:///tmp/2021-10-29-115256.webm'

** (cheese:957896): WARNING **: 12:03:44.728: could not generate thumbnail for /home/lotuspsychje/Video's/Webcam/2021-10-29-115256.webm (video/webm)

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

I can confirm the white screen after taking a photo.

When trying to stop a video recording cheese freezes and after a few seconds a "Cheese is not responding" dialog box is displayed. The video found in 'Videos | Webcam' is of a continuous green screen.

Changed in cheese (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Problems still exist now that I've updated cheese to version 41.0-3

lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)
description: updated
summary: - Cheese screenshot white screen and video freezes [wayland]
+ Cheese screenshot white screen and video freezes
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lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje) wrote :

Maybe related upstream? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/139

Bin Li (binli)
tags: added: oem-priority originate-from-1990252 sutton
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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :

On Ubuntu 22.04 starting cheese from terminal i see nothing for many seconds and then a message:
corrado@corrado-n2-jammy:~$ cheese

(cheese:3226): cheese-WARNING **: 09:40:13.862: Internal data stream error.: ../libs/gst/base/gstbasesrc.c(3127): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin18/GstPipeWireSrc:pipewiresrc1:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4)

and cheese window opens with a message: These was an error playing video...

Bin Li (binli)
tags: added: originate-from-1993784
Bin Li (binli)
tags: added: originate-from-1990246
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