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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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The Camera group went away [SOLVED]

I tried to add myself to the Camera group, and it's no longer there:

[skottish@localhost ~]$ sudo gpasswd -a skottish camera
unknown group: camera
gpasswd: Permission denied.

Everything else is fine:

[skottish@localhost ~]$ groups
disk video audio optical storage skottish

At one point I use to be in that group. Hmmm????

CK kernel 2.6.21 on 64 bit.

Last edited by skottish (2007-07-02 12:21:32)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: The Camera group went away [SOLVED]

camera is not a default group - it is created when the libgphoto2 package is installed. It could be that you were hit by the early pacman3 bug that replaced your existing /etc/group with the default version from the filesystem package - as you are a member of default groups only, this would not have been apparent until now.

If you're the kind of user who makes backups, check them first - otherwise, reinstall libgphoto2.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: The Camera group went away [SOLVED]

Perfect. Thanks.