Hmm.. see, I've tried that already though. I've also tried reverting to the standard camera-ui, which yields an identical series of failures. Right now I'm trying removing the fcam-drivers completely (they were at 1.0.7-2) and seeing if maybe it's one of the apps associated with them that's causing it. The only ones claiming a dependency are mir-translator, blessn900, fcamera and hdrcapture.

Does camera-ui actually use the fcam drivers at all? I'm guessing it doesn't? Since after uninstalling it still tries to take pictures? :P What package controls the dsp stuff? In particular the dsp-jpeg-encoder stuff? If there a lib package for that I can try re-installing? I'd really hate to have this boil down to a re-flash.


Edit:
So, I'm not sure what caused it to work again, but it's mainly working. I'm still getting an occasional "dsp_thread: failed waiting for events", but those are pretty rare. I wound up purging and re-installing most of the camera apps, and the fcam-drivers package. I also re-installed anything with dsp in it's title from package manager, as well as the camera-firmware package. (That was one of the last few I did before it started working.)

Whatever the cause, I'm no longer seeing the error messages I was seeing before about "template caps" when things start up. I'm also not seeing anything special outside the normal debug output about the bad icons now. So, if someone has a similar problem, a solution may be to simply re-install the dsp packages and camera-firmware and see if that helps? I love my quirky little device, but there are times I really have to wonder how close it's coming to being the next "Johnny 5".

Thanks for the help! May not seem like much, but even knowing someone else had this issue and solved it was encouraging.