Description of problem: Everytime i try to use webcam on Samsung N145 Plus (cheese, camorama, Skype) the system freezes. It has to be turn off/on to restart Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux 3.4.3-1.fc17.i686 cheese-3.4.2-3.fc17.i686 camorama-0.19-7.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-1.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-7.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-1.fc17.i686 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.7.4-4.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-4.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.22-4.fc17.i686 How reproducible: try to use web cam with any program cheese - freezes camorama - freezes skype --> options --> video settings - freezes Steps to Reproduce: 1. start cheese or camorama 2. system freezes 3. have to switch off/on computer Actual results: whole system freezes, looses existing network connection. Have to hard reboot Expected results: webcam turns on and i am able to take pics/video or video chat Additional info: dmesg: [ 17.312353] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 17.322678] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device WebCam SCB-0355N (2232:1006) [ 17.324482] input: WebCam SCB-0355N as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/ 1-8/1-8:1.0/input/input8 [ 17.324793] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 17.324801] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1) Camera worked fine on F16 CPU0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz stepping 0a agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel GMA3150 Chipset 2GB RAM System has been upgraded F16 --> F17 using preupgrade Same problem occurs when running from Live-USB though. Thanks and regards Frank
I tried all steps as described in a similar bug 815134.
Since this happens with other v4l2 apps then cheese, it likely is a kernel bug, changing component.
UPDATE The OS installed on HDD is i686 architecture. I just tried LiveOS x86_64 architecture with the following results stock LiveOS F17 (x86_64 no updates) when i run cheese from terminal nothing happens no window opens. I got whole bunch of GTK error messages, but the system doesn't hang. CTRL+C returns back to prompt. No light on the camera comes up. updated cheese and gstreamer-plugins ran "yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cheese gstreamer*" run cheese from terminal --> system hangs Frank
Is this still happening with 3.6.9 kernels?
Hi Justin, just tested with 3.6.9 kernel and the camera appears to be working now. Cheese is working fine. Camorama is wirking fine. Skype - camera doesn't show preview in Skype setting. However video calling IS working. It is probably an issue with Skype though. I believe the bug can be closed. Thank you Frank
Thanks for re-testing, closing.