FS#39001 - [cheese] Attempts to save picture under / if XDG_PICTURES_DIR not set

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by TSuds (Solumin) - Sunday, 23 February 2014, 02:01 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 20:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
cheese attempts to save pictures in the root directory if the XDG_PICTURES_DIR environment variable is not set.
This causes a "Permission Denied" error. The message "There was an error playing video from the webcam" is displayed in the image preview area of the GUI.

This problem was solved by running `xdg-user-dirs-update'.


Additional info:
* Full error message:
(cheese:10596): cheese-WARNING **: Error while writing to file "/2014-02-22-205225.jpg".: gstmultifilesink.c(653): gst_multi_file_sink_render (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstMultiFileSink:imagebin-filesink:
Permission denied

Steps to reproduce:
Comment out the XDG_PICTURES_DIR line in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, run Cheese, and take a picture.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 20:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#38170 

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