This is a fascinating discovery! I recall a couple of years ago having some kind of problem with Rhythmbox and cameras, so this might be another variation on that, or a full-blown regression.
We're tracking this problem in our Redmine server. Hopefully other people try what you did and lets us know if this is the source of our problems: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4512 -- Jim On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:33 PM, go linux <[email protected]> wrote: On 1/24/13, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi, > > On Mi, 23 Jan 2013, go linux wrote: >> "The camera is locked by another application. Shotwell can only access >> the camera when it's unlocked. Please close any other application >> using the camera and try again." > [...] >> I deleted Shotwell dot files in my /home directory, reinstalled >> Shotwell and even rebooted but no joy. Is there any way to get >> Shotwell working again? > > There is some other application holding the device. Maybe > some auto-mounting or auto import is running. > > My guess is that nothing whatsoever on the shotwell side can get > it working. > > Do you have sufficient permissions to the devices? > > Norbert > Thanks for responding. YEA!! I got it working. Here's how. I started from this logged in .xsessions-errors when trying to open the camera: ---------------------------------------- Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team LIBMTP WARNING: no MTP vendor extension on device 16 on bus 3LIBMTP WARNING: VendorExtensionID: 0000000bLIBMTP WARNING: VendorExtensionDesc: (null)LIBMTP WARNING: this typically means the device is PTP (i.e. a camera) but not an MTP device at all. Trying to continue anyway.LIBMTP PANIC: could not inspect object property descriptions! LIBMTP PANIC: could not inspect object property descriptions! ---------------------------------------- Then I looked at the libmtp packages and added libmtp-dev and mtp-tools just for the heck of it. Then I noticed that rhythmbox-plugins came up in the MTP search and also that rhythmbox was sleeping in the list of processes so I stopped that rhythmbox process. After all that, I was able to open Shotwell and access the camera. I don't remember ever using rhythmbox so don't know how it got started. Very strange. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
