Cheese not working after upgrade to 12.04

**MrsUser** · April 30th, 2012

After upgrading Kubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04, Cheese stopped working. I can see its icon popup shortly on the task bar and then disappearing immediately again. Anyone has the same problem?

**Sonsum** · April 30th, 2012

I do not. What happens if you try running

Code:

cheese

from the terminal?

**MrsUser** · April 30th, 2012

When running cheese from terminal, I get the following output:

Code:

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkGrid to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:3402): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel
libv4l2: error getting pixformat: Invalid argument

** (cheese:3402): CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_uuid: assertion `CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I don't understand a word of this.

**Sonsum** · May 1st, 2012

Don't worry, I really don't either. Everything else is fine except for that segfault at the end. I tried looking around and I couldn't find an immediate solution.

Might as well try running:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove cheese

then

Code:

sudo apt-get install cheese

Hopefully, a re-install will fix it.

**MrsUser** · May 1st, 2012

Unfortunately, a re-install didn't fix it either :-/

**MrsUser** · May 2nd, 2012

Nevermind. I re-installed the OS now. Replaced Kubuntu with Ubuntu, giving Unity another try. Cheese is working now.

**Sonsum** · May 2nd, 2012

Originally Posted by MrsUser

Nevermind. I re-installed the OS now. Replaced Kubuntu with Ubuntu, giving Unity another try. Cheese is working now.

Perhaps it was a Kubuntu issue. Also, if you decide that you don't like Unity, there are many GNOME-based alternatives such as Gnome Shell (my personal favorite), Gnome Classic, Cinnamon, and MATE.