Bug#619860: crashes with USB (UVC) camera "04fc:2843" (Sunplus Technology)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Package: cheese
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal

While cheese works perfectly with most cameras, it crashes on
the new one I purchased for use on my bike. Maybe the fault is
not on cheeses, but on the kernel UVC drivers side?

dmesg says:

[13817.451685] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Video Camera (04fc:2843)
[13819.944095] input: Video Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input13
[13833.404120] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 1 on unit 4: -110 (exp. 1).
[13833.704260] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_DEF) UVC control 2 on unit 5: -110 (exp. 2).
[13834.004138] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_DEF) UVC control 2 on unit 5: -110 (exp. 2).
[13841.752213] cheese[6094]: segfault at 0 ip 08064405 sp bf85b870 error 4 in cheese[8048000+24000]

According to lsusb the camera is Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common          2.30.1-2          Common files for the Cheese tool t
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.30-1         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.24-1         GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-x        0.10.30-1         GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2              1.8.10-6          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0       0.24-1            Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcheese-gtk18        2.30.1-2          A tool to take pictures and videos
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.88-2.1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-6          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17  2.30.2-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.30-1         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.30-1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         164-3             GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2             2.26.3-1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-2   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gvfs                          1.6.4-3    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

cheese suggests no packages.

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