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entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

When I try to start cheese from terminal I get:

Failed to register: Timeout was reached

I tried resetting the cheese settings in dconf-editor but the problem persists.

My webcam works with guvcview so it's not a kernel issue.

I checked the logs and cannot see any relevant lines.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by entodoays (2018-02-26 16:19:13)

entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

I tried running cheese on Gnome on Xorg and it doesn't work either.

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 680

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Runs OK for me on up to date GNOME + Wayland but takes an unusual 30 secs to start every time. Apart from a minor theme depreciation warning on the command line there are no other log messages, nor in the journal.

entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Tried running on XFCE and am getting exactly the same error message. This error does not seem related to the Desktop Environment or display server.

entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

I tried running with sudo and it worked, so it seems there's an issue with permissions. Can anybody help me discover which permissions are requested? Maybe I need to add the user to some group.

gnumdk

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Registered: 2009-10-15

Posts: 175

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Same here but permissions are ok:
getfacl /dev/video0
getfacl : suppression du premier « / » des noms de chemins absolus
# file: dev/video0
# owner: root
# group: video
user::rw-
user:gnumdk:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Problem solved. Adding my user to group video with

sudo usermod  -a -G video username

solved the problem.

Marking as SOLVED. However it is strange that guvcview, skype and web browsers are capable of using webcam without the user being in the video group and cheese requires it.

Last edited by entodoays (2018-02-26 16:21:04)

promach

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Registered: 2016-05-18

Posts: 96

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

sudo usermod  -a -G video username

This command does not help for me. Anyone have other advice ?

Last edited by promach (2018-03-10 03:18:40)

faceoff

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Registered: 2018-04-01

Posts: 1

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Try to disable the pipeware if you run gnome under xorg.

Root command:

systemctl --global disable pipewire.socket

After reboot cheese recognizes the video cam device on localuser.

User command:

systemctl --user status pipewire.socket

Enjoy!

Last edited by faceoff (2018-04-06 20:12:17)

X1aomu

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Registered: 2018-04-08

Posts: 17

Re: Cheese does not work on Gnome/XFCE [SOLVED]

Try to disable the pipeware if you run gnome under xorg.

Root command:

systemctl --global disable pipewire.socket

After reboot cheese recognizes the video cam device on localuser.

User command:

systemctl --user status pipewire.socket

Enjoy!

This helps me a lot. Thanks!
It even solves the non-response problem of "GNOME Settings" happening after I clicked the "Details -- Users" Tab,