Bug 22830

Summary: Update candidate: make zbarcam work
Product: Mageia Reporter: Samuel Verschelde <stormi-mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: herman.viaene, sysadmin-bugs, tarazed25
Version: 6Keywords: advisory, has_procedure, validated_update
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: MGA6-64-OK
Source RPM: zbar CVE:
Status comment:

Description Samuel Verschelde 2018-03-25 16:49:27 CEST
zbarcam, from the zbar package, fails to open the webcam device.

The following update candidate fixes this by applying a patch that allows it to handle v4l2.

SRPM:
zbar-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6

RPMS:
zbar-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}.rpm 
lib{,64}zbar0-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}.rpm 
lib{,64}zbargtk0-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}.r
lib{,64}zbarqt0-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}.rp
lib{,64}zbar-devel-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}
python-zbar-0.10-3.20121014.8.1.mga6.{i586,x86_64}.rpm 

Advisory:
The zbarcam utility from the zbar package fails to detect webcams with recent kernels. This update fixes it.
Comment 1 Herman Viaene 2018-03-30 14:01:00 CEST
MGA6-32 on Dell Latitude D600 MATE
No installation issues.
This old laptop does not have a webcam, but at least it does not seem to break anything.

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 2 Len Lawrence 2018-03-30 16:03:03 CEST
Mageia6 on x86_64 Aorus X5 laptop.

I wondered if the webcam was working on this laptop because the call window  showed nothing but a moving icon.

$ zbarcam
WARNING: no compatible input to output format
...trying again with output disabled
ERROR: zbar processor in zbar_processor_init():
    unsupported request: no compatible image format

Installed the updates.

$ zbarcam
Up popped a greyscale window with my ugly face in it.

zbar seems to be working now.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

Len Lawrence 2018-03-30 16:03:29 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6-64-OK

Comment 3 claire robinson 2018-03-30 17:25:28 CEST
Testing OK here too mga6 64, same as Len.
claire robinson 2018-03-30 17:30:40 CEST

Keywords: (none) => advisory, has_procedure, validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2018-03-31 00:21:08 CEST
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2018-0056.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED