So my trials and tribulations have not been in vain! Glad that my discovery has been helpful.
Regarding this bug posted at your redmine link below: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgphoto2/+bug/581087 I found similar entries in dmesg etc. when I tried to access the camera. Would post some but not on that machine ATM. Unfortunately they weren't very helpful in sussing out the culprit. On 1/24/13, Nelson, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
