After Upgrading to 10.9.2 Isight is not working

I had Air Display installed. I ran AppCleaner and uninstalled the app, and rebooted. Still no camera recognition. I may go ahead an run disk Utility and repair the permissions and see if that does anything.

I can confirm that removing AirParrot has worked for me as well! I used this uninstall script from their website:

http://airparrot.com/download/AirParrotRemovalTool.zip

Now we just need AirParrot to release a fix!

Thanks!

Neil

john slavin1 wrote:

I had Air Display installed. I ran AppCleaner and uninstalled the app, and rebooted. Still no camera recognition. I may go ahead an run disk Utility and repair the permissions and see if that does anything.

Instead of using a third-party uninstall tool (which I never recommend, by the way!), use the official Air Display uninstaller.

From http://www.avatron.com/support/faq-air-display/#toggle-id-23:

How do I uninstall Air Display?

You can uninstall Air Display by running the UninstallAirDisplay script in your Applications>Utilities directory .

And make sure to restart. Did that help?

Uauhhh! Briliant, it worked for me to.

I didnt even knew I had this app installed. Amazing.

I'll sleep better tonite....:-)))))))

Unfortunately I had neither Air Display, or Air Parrot installed.....but I did have the DisplayLink drivers installed. I uninstalled DisplayLink and now everything is working again! Big thanks to everybody who contributed to finding the problem.

Thanks for the added info, timw321. Could it be that all third-party video drivers are problematic, in that case?

Maybe not all. Those that create some kind of "virtual display" seem to be though.

AirDisplay was installed on my system as well. I ran the uninstall script located in Applications/Utilities/ and rebooted. So far no VDCAssistant crashes, which means no Console out of control reporting. Nice find igayague! I'd still like to have AirDisplay installed, but I'm willing to wait until either the AirDisplay or 10.9.2 bug is resolved. iSight camera works as well with no issues. I would have never thought to check AirDisplay as a potential culprit. Nice job!

I'm not sure if I had airparrot, but ran the uninstaller anyway. I did have air display installed. Ran their uninstaller also. I also had vlcstreamer and uninstalled it just in case.

After restart iSight camera is now working.

Thanks to those who figured it out. Good Job.

Cannot commit that Airparrot uninstall helped.

Had Airparrot installed.

Ran uninstaller from website and found drivers still in place in /Library/Extensions and Application removed.

Manual removal as root as described at http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8.

• sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/APExtFramebuffer.kext
• sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/AirParrotDriver.kext

After manual removal restart.

Still no camera for Facetime, Messages, Quicktime. :-/

Interesting sideeffect: VDCAssistant does not crash and/or run high in Console log.

Had no AirDisplay.

More ideas welcome.

Removing Airparrot and Airplay did not do the trick for me. I spoke by phone to apple support, since Isight work only on safe mode, they suggested to partionned the hardrive and install on that new partition 10.9.2...and that did not work also. The only way to go back to 10.9.1 is if you have a backup with time machine and that not the case for me. So I have to wait for a fix...

Don't give up yet. My camera didn't show up straight away. Photobooth wouldn't see it, Facetime wouldn't see it, Skype took ages to launch but finally did...and saw it. Then facetime saw it, and then Photobooth saw it....

But it wasn't immediate in my case.

Actually, thinking about it, running the below in Terminal and rebooting is what finally fixed it after removing all the offending programs for me:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

Message was edited by: timw321 Added terminal command

The culprit application in my case was Screenrecycler which hadn't been used for years - I had to uninstall the driver & reboot & the camera works again & no more VDCAssistant crashes

Thank you guys ! Problem solved ! I ran the Airparrot and Air display uninstaller and evvrything has back to the normal.

Hi timw321,

success! Your call for patience is correct. Your tip worked for me.

Thank you.

I tried your sequence of application testing now.

Tidbits:

1. Starting Skype first time, opening video preferences brought green LED back. Yet the video stayed black.

2. Stopped Skype and restarted. The same habit.

3. Stopped Skype and started Facetime. Facetime's green LED glows AND(!) video.

4. Stopped Facetime and started Skype, openend video preferences. LED glows and video is visible now.

5. Stopped Skype and started Messages, preferences were open from last test, green LED glows AND(!) video.

6. Stopped Messages and started PhotoBooth, green LED glows, video works

What a weird path to healing. :-)

Would like to understand these partial steps to success.