Ubuntu
guvcview package

unable to open guvcview. fatal error

Bug #901142 reported by skumara
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This bug affects 12 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
guvcview (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Precise
Fix Released
High
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Bug Description

Guvcview was working well before. I last used it 2 weeks ago for taking a picture of myself. today it crashed.

the terminal output was:

altikum3@altikum3-Presario-CQ42-Notebook-PC:~$ guvcview
guvcview 1.4.5
Fatal:g_thread NOT supported

before filling this bug report i have searched ubuntu forum and google. and used the following methods but nothing able to fix this problem.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860519&page=2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/838739/comments/16

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: guvcview 1.4.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 7 17:49:04 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: guvcview
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-06 (0 days ago)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/precise/guvcview
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skumara (skumara2000) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in guvcview (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Mörgæs (moergaes) wrote :

This bug is still present in a daily build of Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha (guvcview version 1.5.0).

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Paulo Assis (pj-assis) wrote :

Hi,
This is solved in 1.5.1

you can get it from one of the following ppas:

stable - https://launchpad.net/~pj-assis/+archive/ppa :
ppa:pj-assis/ppa

testing - latest svn build - https://launchpad.net/~pj-assis/+archive/testing:
ppa:pj-assis/testing

Regards
Paulo

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Paulo Assis (pj-assis) wrote :

better use the testing ppa, for some reason I've received reports that 1.5.1 is still throwing that error (even if pthreads has now replaced gthreads).

i386: https://launchpad.net/~pj-assis/+archive/testing/+files/guvcview_1.5.1%2B787-0ubuntu0%7E201201181032%7Eoneiric1_i386.deb

amd64: https://launchpad.net/~pj-assis/+archive/testing/+files/guvcview_1.5.1%2B787-0ubuntu0%7E201201181032%7Eoneiric1_amd64.deb

I'll release 1.5.2 (current svn) during this week anyway so better test that instead, I only expect to make some minor changes until then.

Regards,
Paulo

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Paulo Assis (pj-assis) wrote :

Just released 1.5.2 (you can get it from my stable ppa)
It fixes this bug and some other issues with libavcodec (also adds Italian translation).

Regards,
Paulo

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Mörgæs (moergaes) wrote :

Confirming that 1.5.2 fixes the problem.

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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote :

Please try to get that into Precise.

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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote :

Checking video mode 1280x720@32bpp : OK
Audio frame size is 1152 samples for selected codec
guvcview: /build/buildd/libav-extra-0.8.0.1build1/libav/libavutil/mathematics.c:79: av_rescale_rnd: Assertion `c > 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

It does not make video, for me.

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

1.5.2 works for me, thanks.

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Mörgæs (moergaes) wrote :

@Karl Hegbloom:

Regarding the video problem, have you tried version 1.5.3?

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clockworkpc (clockworkpc) wrote :

@ Mörgas, where do you download 1.5.3 from? The PPA goes up to 1.5.2.

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Mörgæs (moergaes) wrote :

You can find 1.5.3 in the testing PPA (see post 4).

Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
Changed in guvcview (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
Changed in guvcview (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: nobody → Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package guvcview - 1.5.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
guvcview (1.5.3-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
   - Move to pthreads, fixes gthread API 2 issues (LP: #901142).
  * debian/control:
   - Update build dependencies.
   - Update homepage.
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:15:33 -0500

Changed in guvcview (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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