Hey everyone, Luis Arias has been looking into this problem and has done some fantastic debugging. I recommend looking at his notes from the past couple of days:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4512 -- Jim On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:58 PM, go linux <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry . . . the previous post was accidentally sent before I had finished. On 1/25/13, Colin Law wrote: > On 25 January 2013 03:56, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is not really a Shotwell topic, but Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu >> forum would be better to place. > > The OP is using Debian I believe. > YES!! Debian. Quite a different animal from 'buntu. Mixing repos is a recipe for disaster . . . a big no-no. > > . . . why is Rhythmbox running and why is it > grabbing the camera. > Additional information . . . this bug not only affects shotwell but f-spot and gtkam also. None of them can access the camera until rhythmbox is stopped. > > As to why it is running in the first place then no idea. Yes, that is the root of the problem. If we knew that, it could be disabled/fixed at the source. > > @OP which version of Rhythmbox have you got? > 0.12.8-3 - the one in the squeeze repos. There isn't a newer version for either rhythmbox or shotwell in backports. Nothing yet from the debian maintainers . . . _______________________________________________ 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
