cheese crashed with signal 5 in _XError()

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Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

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I get the same error when trying to record a video. I'm not sure what kind of debugging you would like but I'll try to provide it.

after i run the backtrace it shows the following log and the cheese window grayscales and just hangs.

Heres a backtrace log:

Starting program: /usr/bin/cheese
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6fd6b70 (LWP 3238)]
[New Thread 0xb67d5b70 (LWP 3239)]

Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 77 error_code 8 request_code 132 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
aborting...
[New Thread 0xb65ffb70 (LWP 3241)]
[New Thread 0xb5dfeb70 (LWP 3242)]
[New Thread 0xb55fdb70 (LWP 3243)]
[New Thread 0xb2cd0b70 (LWP 3245)]
[Thread 0xb6fd6b70 (LWP 3238) exited]

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
[Switching to Thread 0xb5dfeb70 (LWP 3242)]
0x00c5ca3f in g_logv () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
(gdb)

CJay554 & Durand D'souza Kindly follow the information given here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

CJay554 , the gdb is not complete , you need to follow all the steps given in the wiki to get a full backtrace and it also seems your crash might be different

Uhm, I forgot to say that this bug seems to have been fixed for me. Thanks.

This bug report is being closed due to the last comment regarding this being fixed . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find

@CJay554. If you are still having the problem , kindly open a separate bug report, as others on this bug mention it is fixed