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

Jan Kroeze thejcwk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 15:48:56 BST 2007


I don't see any entry for your camera in there, unless it's this one:

# /dev/hda1
UUID=663C49543C492083 /media/hda1     ntfs
defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1

But I'm guessing that's a windows installation. Does anyone know if creating
an fstab entry will solve this problem?

On 25/03/07, Robert Holm <robhh at absamail.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:16 +0200, Jan Kroeze wrote:
> > Could you post the contents of /etc/fstab?
> >
> contents of /etc/fstab are as follows:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/hdb5
> UUID=77cb322d-6f57-499a-bfd8-776f06a0f446 /               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/hdd7
> UUID=7c5fb42c-2ef7-449c-a1e9-ad6eadd1c64f /backup         ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdd5
> UUID=149a9251-b61a-4efc-a061-d90806d4173d /backup2        ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb6
> UUID=21116e2e-dd71-4406-91a9-c4acfafea138 /home           ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda1
> UUID=663C49543C492083 /media/hda1     ntfs
> defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
> # /dev/hdb11
> UUID=60c8f760-2dcf-49f5-b8b5-5259c15c9ef1 /opt            ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb10
> UUID=a4709a8f-873a-4cf7-894d-1739ed9ec4e0 /tmp            ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb7
> UUID=b3356310-29a4-4168-a4e0-2c72eb44f112 /usr            ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb9
> UUID=bdd74195-c936-47f4-bc55-75cb66f27d03 /usr/local      ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdd8
> UUID=11edd835-1aee-4847-ad80-7eb4ef27c414 /utility        ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb8
> UUID=549c8d1b-6343-4a18-8f6a-f045ea4fe69b /var            ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hdb12
> UUID=6195c029-d02b-4abf-93e1-439682774647 none            swap    sw
> 0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> /dev/           /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
>
> > 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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