| Summary: | Update candidate: make zbarcam work | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Samuel Verschelde <stormi-mageia> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | QA Team <qa-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | herman.viaene, sysadmin-bugs, tarazed25 |
| Version: | 6 | Keywords: | advisory, has_procedure, validated_update |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | MGA6-64-OK | ||
| Source RPM: | zbar | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
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:
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herman.viaene 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:
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tarazed25
Len Lawrence
2018-03-30 16:03:29 CEST
Whiteboard:
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MGA6-64-OK Testing OK here too mga6 64, same as Len.
claire robinson
2018-03-30 17:30:40 CEST
Keywords:
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advisory, has_procedure, validated_update An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2018-0056.html Resolution:
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FIXED |
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.