[ubuntu-za] USB devices (camera) in Edgy

[Jan Kroeze]

Could you post the contents of /etc/fstab?

On 25/03/07, Robert Holm <robhh at absamail.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:16 +0200, Jan Kroeze wrote:
> > The problem might be in your fstab if the device is mounted with the
> > wrong umask.
> >
> > One question: does that error occur when you plug in the device or
> > when you attempt to mount it?
>
> When I plug in the camera I get the message:
> "A camera has been detected. There are photos on the camera. Would you
> like to add these pictures to your album."
>
> I then click on Import Photos and the message comes up.
>
> Because everything works fine when I log in as root I assumed that it
> was not a problem with the interface being used by another device, nor a
> difficulty in mounting the camera.
> > On 24/03/07, Robert Holm <robhh at absamail.co.za> wrote:
> >         When trying to download pictures from my camera for the
> >         first time since switching to Edgy the system recognised
> >         that a camera had been connected but gave me the following
> >         error message:
> >
> >         "An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the
> >         USB device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Operation not
> >         permitted). Make sure no other program or kernel module
> >         (such as sdc2xx, stv680, spca50x) is using the device and
> >         you have read/write access to the device."
> >
> >         If I log in as root there is no problem, so it is obviously
> >         due to the access permissions. I have spent an enormous
> >         amount of time altering innumerable permissions, but so
> >         far without success. To coin a phrase, "So many files, so
> >         little time!"
> >
> >         Has anyone any idea where the culprit is hiding?
> >
> >         Regards
> >
> >         Robert
> >
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