Cheese will start from terminal but not main menu on 20.04

Astrid_Redfern

11/14/22, 4:12 PM

I'm running Ubuntu MATE 20.04.2. When I try to launch Cheese from the main menu, a small bar (like a minimised window) appears in the panel at the bottom of the screen, saying "Starting Cheese". After a few seconds it vanishes, and Cheese does not launch.

However, when I try to open Cheese from the MATE terminal, it works straight away!

$ which cheese
/usr/bin/cheese

$ which -a cheese
/usr/bin/cheese
/bin/cheese

I have tried changing the command in Cheese's menu entry from cheese to /usr/bin/cheese and /bin/cheese, both times without any luck. I also tried mate-terminal -e "cheese", but again no luck. I tried setting Cheese's menu entry to "Application in terminal" as well as "Application" - no luck from either.

I don't know where logfiles for Cheese would be, and in this age of systemd I can't consult /var/log/messages anymore. I did try:

$ dmesg | grep "cheese"

but nothing showed up.

The only possible clue I have is that when I first launched Cheese from the command line and took four photos, when I closed it I saw the following in the terminal:

$ cheese

(cheese:16782): GLib-CRITICAL **: 16:47:37.203: Source ID 6792 was not found when attempting to remove it

(cheese:16782): GLib-CRITICAL **: 16:47:54.570: Source ID 8525 was not found when attempting to remove it

(cheese:16782): GLib-CRITICAL **: 16:48:46.087: Source ID 9582 was not found when attempting to remove it

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N0rbert

11/14/22, 4:21 PM

The normal Cheese package puts its executable into /usr/bin/cheese and not to /bin/cheese.

So you have to remove the latter by

sudo rm /bin/cheese

and then reinstall the package by

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall cheese

and then retry launching Cheese from terminal or MATE menu.

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Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Cheese will start from terminal but not main menu on 20.04

TH: ชีสจะเริ่มจากเทอร์มินัล แต่ไม่ใช่เมนูหลักในวันที่ 20.04

RO: Brânza va începe din terminal, dar nu din meniul principal pe 20.04

RU: Cheese запустится из терминала, но не из главного меню 20.04.

VI: Phô mai sẽ bắt đầu từ thiết bị đầu cuối nhưng không phải menu chính vào ngày 20.04

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