I spent an afternoon messing around with this - AND I FIGURED OUT THE FIX.
the package "gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio" is not listed as a dependency for cheese, but without it the whole program crashes while complaining about jack server.
After installing gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, cheese behaves as it should for me.
I will be filing a separate bug, and referencing this bug.
I spent an afternoon messing around with this - AND I FIGURED OUT THE FIX.
the package "gstreamer1. 0-pulseaudio" is not listed as a dependency for cheese, but without it the whole program crashes while complaining about jack server.
After installing gstreamer1. 0-pulseaudio, cheese behaves as it should for me.
I will be filing a separate bug, and referencing this bug.