Bug 117537

Summary:	kopete freezes when webcam is removed (using gspcal)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Carlo Segato <brandon.ml>
Component:	Audio/Video Plugin	Assignee:	Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro <taupter>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	alex.merry, fschaefer.oss, kde, kopete-bugs-null, percy.camilo.ta
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Carlo Segato 2005-12-02 21:34:20 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

if you go to webcam's preferences in kopete and then you plug off the webcam kopete crashes, i think it's the same if this happens during a conversation

Comment 1 Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro 2005-12-02 22:48:15 UTC

I'm investigating why it happens.

Comment 2 Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro 2007-11-05 21:25:34 UTC

Fix pending gspca1's Michel Xhaard's goodwill, as described in the kopete-devel post (link below)
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kopete-devel&m=119429215312848&w=2

Comment 3 Marius Cirsta 2008-07-06 04:25:48 UTC

 This is still happening in Kopete from kdenetwork 20080705+svn828272 . Used the gspca1 from Ubuntu 8.04.1.

Comment 4 Marius Cirsta 2008-07-06 04:53:49 UTC

 And it's not really a crash , it's a freeze .

Comment 5 Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro 2008-07-06 04:58:58 UTC

Please see comment #2. Until it's fixed in the driver, it sadly can't be fixed in Kopere.

Comment 6 Matt Rogers 2008-08-11 22:29:25 UTC

*** Bug 168935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Nicolas L. 2008-11-02 04:06:35 UTC

what about this bug ? the driver have been fixed ?

Comment 8 Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi 2008-11-02 06:16:53 UTC

Hi Nicolas, today I tested the last version of kopete (from source) and another app that manage Webcam too called cheesse (or something like that :P) ... here my conclutions:

- It can't be 2 apps using the same Webcam. in my case cheesse and kopete-settings.
- The bug it still there, but it doesn't a kopete issue but seems to be a issue with gspca (Webcam driver/module)

I'm trying of load the mxhaard.free.fr page but it seems broken, also I downloaded the gspa sources and a fast view indicates that the code has not been touched since 2005 :(. I hope that someone maintain the source, unfortunately I don't have the skills to such task neither the time :( to start to learn it.

Bests,
Percy

Comment 9 Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro 2008-11-02 14:43:54 UTC

The gspca1 drivers from mxhaard.free.fr still have that flaw that makes impossible to fix the issue. Mr. Xhaard seems to be unwilling and/or unable to fix his own code.

Comment 10 Alex Merry 2009-12-28 16:04:22 UTC

I suggest resolving this as UPSTREAM, since it's apparently not something Kopete can do anything about.

Comment 11 Frank Schaefer 2010-02-20 16:03:12 UTC

Device removal has been fixed with KDE SC 4.4 (Kopete 1.0).
I also can't reproduce it with kernel-drivers gspca-sn9c20x and gspca-sonixj (kernel 2.6.32.8).