[Bug 1082458] Re: ubiquity crashes on webcam access

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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.13.17

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ubiquity (2.13.17) raring; urgency=low

  * Remove webcam step (LP: #1118589):
    - User testing showed people are not expecting to be photographed and
      raise privacy concerns as to where the picture will be uploaded to.
    - Provides limited benefit, as avatar only ever shown on multi-login
      systems in the switch user indicator / pkexec.
    - Crashes the installer or doesn't work with certain webcams.
    - Miss detects camera presence, when it's just a sensor.
    - The recommendation is to move webcam test to checkbox / hw testing,
      as video conferencing is very popular these days and should work
      reliably out of the box.
    - LP: #924419 , LP: #981644 , LP: #987392, LP: #1152254, LP: #843354,
      LP: #1008204, LP: #1021449, LP: #1082458, LP: #1103780, LP: #1142751
  * Do not count optional pages, when updating the progress dots. This
    fixes "Porgress dots, well don't progress after partman step"
    LP: #1152746
  * Do not mark explanatory text on "Installation Type" screen
    insensitive, as otherwise it's ineligible (LP: #1074386)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com>   Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:17:51 +0000

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  ubiquity crashes on webcam access

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Installing on and older Asus z62f laptop with built-in webcam.
  Happens on every laptop of this model, so not a faulty hardware issue.

  Tried disabling the webcam with both 'rmmod uvcvideo' and 'ubiquity
  --no-webcam' to no avail.  rmmod reports uvcvideo does not exisit in
  /proc/modules and ubiquity waits for a few seconds before returning
  the to command prompt without opening anything whatsoever.

  When ubiquity is run normally (either from the terminal or desktop) it
  procedes normally until after the user information/password dialog.
  Upon continuing from this page, the picture/photo/avatar dialog opens
  for a split second and ubiquity exits without displaying an error.

  This happens with all flavors of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Fri Nov 23 11:16:12 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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