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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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f-spot error connecting to camera

I've been accessing my digital cameras through gnome manually for a while now and deceided to give f-spot a try.  When I launch it, then try to import with the USB camera connected, I get, "Error connecting to camera.  Received error "could not lock the device" while connecting to camera."

I launched f-spot from the shell and here is the debug info:

$ f-spot
[Info  17:41:44.056] Initializing DBus
[Info  17:41:44.137] Initializing Mono.Addins
[Info  17:41:44.257] Starting new FSpot server
[Info  17:41:44.775] Starting BeagleService
[Info  17:41:44.775] Hack for gnome-settings-daemon engaged
newd - gnome-dev-harddisk - Mountpoint file:///media/D True True Harddrive
Harddrive
item ImportCommand+SourceItem
Testing gphoto path = usb:
PortInfo Universal Serial Bus, usb:
Error Lock: LibGPhoto2.GPhotoException: Could not lock the device
  at LibGPhoto2.Error.CheckError (ErrorCode error) [0x00000] 
  at LibGPhoto2.Camera.Init (LibGPhoto2.Context context) [0x00000] 
  at GPhotoCamera.InitializeCamera () [0x00000] 
  at MainWindow.ImportCamera (System.String camera_device) [0x00000]

If I manually umount the camera I am able to use f-spot to import the photos.  Is there a way to reslove this issue allowing gnome to mount the camera and allowing f-spot to access it?

Last edited by graysky (2009-04-27 21:50:50)

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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: f-spot error connecting to camera

Still seem to be experiencing this.  Now if the camera is mounted, and I point f-spot to it via an import, I get the following:

item ImportCommand+SourceItem
Testing gphoto path = usb:
PortInfo Universal Serial Bus, usb:
Error Lock: LibGPhoto2.GPhotoException: Could not lock the device
  at LibGPhoto2.Error.CheckError (ErrorCode error) [0x00000] 
  at LibGPhoto2.Camera.Init (LibGPhoto2.Context context) [0x00000] 
  at GPhotoCamera.InitializeCamera () [0x00000] 
  at MainWindow.ImportCamera (System.String camera_device) [0x00000] 

(f-spot:5675): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
cleanup context

Again, if I umount the camera before attempting the import, everything just works.... Help is appreciated.

Last edited by graysky (2009-06-12 20:00:45)

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speedboy

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Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 27

Re: f-spot error connecting to camera

I have the same problem and only in Arch Linux. My laptop using Mint 7, and the same Gnome version, doesn't have it. It's not such a big deal for me, cause when i plug it in i get 2 messages and the first one has a unmount button on it.

Rimas

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Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 19

Re: f-spot error connecting to camera

The same in my case
Is there any solution?