FaceTime & Photobooth states Camera not connected on Lion

I just upgraded to Lion on my macbook air. FaceTime and Photobooth both stated that my camera is not connected. How to fix this problem?

I had that exact same problem... along with many others. None of my applications were opening properly including mail.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
This fixed everything for me. Facetime worked right away, photobooth hung once, but when i force closed and restarted it is working beautifully again. (Scroll down to the blue links and select the one applicable for you, in this case it would be "Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own")
Let me know if it works!

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kroles wrote:
I just tried to use my camera function and now I am getting the messsage "camera not connected" Has anyone come across this and any solution.
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here is my problem.
I just updated to 10.8.2 from Lion, and i got two issues in iMessage and Facetime. When I try to connect to my icloud account, the app keeps for 3 mins triying to log me in, but it shows a message saying "could not connect to server, please check your internet connection".
How I know the internet is not the problem? because I`m using the same mac to write this question.
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Ralph,
I have tryed the with a public DNS before, still no success.
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bplist00‘       /YCacheTimeSURLYCachedBagTDate 67_ http://init-p01md.apple.com/bagﬂ
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/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMDAppleServices.framework/Versions/A/IMDApple Services
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/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMTransferServices.framework/Versions/A/IMTran sferServices
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MessageProtection.framework/Versions/A/Message Protection
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Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling imagent (pid 163) every 1 millisecond
Process:         imagent [163]
Path:            /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.app/Contents/MacOS/i magent
Load Address:    0x105dee000
Identifier:      imagent
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [132]
Date/Time:       2013-01-03 21:32:51.278 -0300
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 7
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    +         2855 CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation) + 290 [0x7fff90a9c6b2]
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        kevent (in libsystem_kernel.dylib)        2855
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