all photo programs crash when clicking on import

[John F McEnroe]

Siggy,


1. DigiKam, f-spot,gthumb and GtKam respond to the attempt to "import"
images from a camera by silently attempting to open a window. The window
doesn't stay open long enough to see what it is.

2. I am still trying to determine if I properly did my "undos."

3. I attempted to download a newer version of libgphoto2 which was
supposed to support my Canon PowerShot G10. 

4. Attempting to set up a camera to import photos, I get no error
message. The applications crash.

5. I took a look at ~/.xsession-errors &c, but nothing jumped out at me.
Then again it all looked like Greek to me!

6. I will go look for a card reader.

THanks for the thoughts

John McEnroe
Portland, Oregon


> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:33:11 +0200
> From: Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de>
> Subject: Re: all photo programs crash when clicking on import
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20090821213311.GA28119 at keuner.winnegan.fake>
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> 
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:46 -0700, John F McEnroe wrote:
> 
> > Using Ubuntu 9.04 attempting to import photos causes digiKam, f-spot,
> > gthumb and GtKam to crash or fail to open.
> 
> Do they crash silently?
>  
> > Because if the universal nature of the crashing, I am assuming the
> > problem may lie with libgphoto2 and gphoto. Initially I had problems,
> > but I made it worse by attempting to install a version not in the Ubuntu
> > repositories.
> 
> If you did it correctly, there's no problem in reverting these
> changes.
> 
> > A week of cruising lists and attempting to solve the problem indicates
> > that I do not know the correct questions to ask.
> 
> Please tell us from which DSC you want to import photos, which
> error messages you see, There may be some crucial info in
> the file ~/.xsession-errors &c.
> 
> > Is there a way of finding a solution to successfully importing
> > photos in Ubuntu 9.04?
> 
> If you use a flash memory device in your DSC, you can insert it
> in a corresponding slot on your computer.  I did this years ago
> when my DSC was still unsupported.
> 
> HTH
>   Siggy
> --