Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Walter Dnes wrote: I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try... chmod 777 Desktop ...and then try saving an image to Desktop. BTW, do you have pam or acl in use? Well, I cleaned out the camera pics so I'll have to take some more pics to test. After getting digikam to work by importing it through the card reader, I got all the pics downloaded. Then I cleaned out my card. Putting on the todo list. I'll reply when I get some results. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try... chmod 777 Desktop ...and then try saving an image to Desktop. BTW, do you have pam or acl in use? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote: Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in there as the default saving path? This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE=debug nls -gimp -gnome This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. Not sure of helper programs involved, but Gtkam is just the GUI front for media-gfx/gphoto2. What could cause this? Anyone else run into this? While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about getting pics. Thoughts? Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's powersupply? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote: Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in there as the default saving path? This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE=debug nls -gimp -gnome This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. Not sure of helper programs involved, but Gtkam is just the GUI front for media-gfx/gphoto2. I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam. That helped. I renamed it and it still does the same thing. I played with it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used. If I change to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file. So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing. Weird. This is the new error with a shiney new config: (gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, (gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, (gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated (gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated Google was no help on this error either. I noticed something else tho. I don't have gphoto2 installed here. I have libgphoto2 tho. Should I have gphoto2 installed too? root@fireball / # emerge -pv gphoto2 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/cdk-5.0.20090215 USE=-examples 420 kB [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gphoto2-2.4.14 USE=exif ncurses nls readline -aalib 654 kB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,073 kB root@fireball / # equery list *photo* * Searching for *photo* ... [IP-] [ ] media-gfx/kphotoalbum-4.2:4 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/libgphoto2-2.5.0:0 root@fireball / # equery b gtkam * Searching for gtkam ... media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/images/gtkam) media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/gtkam) media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/bin/gtkam) media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/omf/gtkam) media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/gnome/help/gtkam) root@fireball / # equery d libgphoto2 * These packages depend on libgphoto2: kde-base/kamera-4.9.5 (media-libs/libgphoto2) media-gfx/digikam-2.9.0 (gphoto2 ? media-libs/libgphoto2) media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (=media-libs/libgphoto2-2.5.0) root@fireball / # So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2? What could cause this? Anyone else run into this? While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about getting pics. Thoughts? Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's powersupply? I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine. I have a printer and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with the same results. So, it is weird that other devices work error free but cameras have issues. It does make one wonder what is up with that. I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices. Then again, I think the camera is for the newer ports. May have to look in the manual again to be sure. Open to ideas still. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 15:16:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote: I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam. That helped. I renamed it and it still does the same thing. I played with it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used. If I change to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file. So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing. Weird. Did it have a path in there for saving your photos? I noticed something else tho. I don't have gphoto2 installed here. I have libgphoto2 tho. Should I have gphoto2 installed too? No. gphoto2 is the CLI application for using libgphoto2. gtkam is the GUI application for using libgphoto2. So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2? No. Both gtkam and gphoto2 depend on the libgphoto2 library. Just different user fronts to access the same engine. Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's powersupply? I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine. I have a printer and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with the same results. So, it is weird that other devices work error free but cameras have issues. It does make one wonder what is up with that. I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices. Then again, I think the camera is for the newer ports. May have to look in the manual again to be sure. Open to ideas still. I would do some simple series of dd read/write tests to see how the flash card of the camera behaves compared to other USB devices. If there is a significant difference then the problem is probably device/hardware related, rather than the application you use to access it with. Make sure you do not unplug it in haste. It takes time for the I/O buffer to empty when you are writing to it, despite what your terminal/GUI is telling you. If you have Gkrellms keep an eye on the Disk access to see when it finished doing it and then unmount it cleanly. I know you know all this, but having been impatient myself and losing data I'd rather repeat it here, just as a cautionary tale. ;-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 15:16:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote: I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam. That helped. I renamed it and it still does the same thing. I played with it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used. If I change to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file. So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing. Weird. Did it have a path in there for saving your photos? It did but it changes when I try to save to another directory. It sees and stores the change but saves it to /home/dale/ no matter what. I tried saving some random pics to different places and it updates the config file each time. It ignores it but it does change the file correctly. I noticed something else tho. I don't have gphoto2 installed here. I have libgphoto2 tho. Should I have gphoto2 installed too? No. gphoto2 is the CLI application for using libgphoto2. gtkam is the GUI application for using libgphoto2. So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2? No. Both gtkam and gphoto2 depend on the libgphoto2 library. Just different user fronts to access the same engine. OK. That's not the problem then. Moving on to something else. Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's powersupply? I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine. I have a printer and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with the same results. So, it is weird that other devices work error free but cameras have issues. It does make one wonder what is up with that. I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices. Then again, I think the camera is for the newer ports. May have to look in the manual again to be sure. Open to ideas still. I would do some simple series of dd read/write tests to see how the flash card of the camera behaves compared to other USB devices. If there is a significant difference then the problem is probably device/hardware related, rather than the application you use to access it with. Make sure you do not unplug it in haste. It takes time for the I/O buffer to empty when you are writing to it, despite what your terminal/GUI is telling you. If you have Gkrellms keep an eye on the Disk access to see when it finished doing it and then unmount it cleanly. I know you know all this, but having been impatient myself and losing data I'd rather repeat it here, just as a cautionary tale. ;-) Well, I also have a card reader and it works fine. I don't have any USB hard drives tho. I do have a couple USB sticks and they work fine as well. The ONLY thing that gives me problems is cameras and the camera software. Everything else works fine. I do find it odd that two totally separate programs crash when accessing the camera tho. Thing is, I have used different cameras with the same results. I always tell it before I disconnect so it can sync and make sure everything is safe. Any more ideas? Thanks for the help. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:45AM -0600, Dale wrote: Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE=debug nls -gimp -gnome This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. What could cause this? Anyone else run into this? While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about getting pics. Thoughts? Dale Being partial to CLI, and haven't experienced goofy GUI apps like that in the past, my choice is to remove the card from the camera (or use USB cable attached to the camera), plug the card into a card reader, and rsync the photos to my desired directory. Whereas GUI photo apps work good in the darkside, we're lacking in Gentoo. For my Canon EOS 20D this script is great: mingdao@workstation ~ $ cat scripts/transfer-photos.sh #!/bin/bash mount /Canon-EOS rsync -av /Canon-EOS/dcim/ /photos/ umount /Canon-EOS There is a directory /photos/, and the following in /etc/fstab: LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL /Canon-EOS vfat noauto,users,rw,gid=1000,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,shortname=lower 0 0 Works great here. Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:45AM -0600, Dale wrote: Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE=debug nls -gimp -gnome This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. What could cause this? Anyone else run into this? While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about getting pics. Thoughts? Dale Being partial to CLI, and haven't experienced goofy GUI apps like that in the past, my choice is to remove the card from the camera (or use USB cable attached to the camera), plug the card into a card reader, and rsync the photos to my desired directory. Whereas GUI photo apps work good in the darkside, we're lacking in Gentoo. For my Canon EOS 20D this script is great: mingdao@workstation ~ $ cat scripts/transfer-photos.sh #!/bin/bash mount /Canon-EOS rsync -av /Canon-EOS/dcim/ /photos/ umount /Canon-EOS There is a directory /photos/, and the following in /etc/fstab: LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL /Canon-EOS vfat noauto,users,rw,gid=1000,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,shortname=lower 0 0 Works great here. Bruce Well, one reason I use gtkam is that I can rename the pics as it transfers them over. I date code mine and sometimes add other hints to the name. If I just copy them over from the card reader, it uses the same name as the camera uses and that doesn't let me keep track as I like too. I may see if digikam will import from the card reader thingy tho. That *may* work. Still prefer to plug in my camera tho. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Dale wrote: Well, one reason I use gtkam is that I can rename the pics as it transfers them over. I date code mine and sometimes add other hints to the name. If I just copy them over from the card reader, it uses the same name as the camera uses and that doesn't let me keep track as I like too. I may see if digikam will import from the card reader thingy tho. That *may* work. Still prefer to plug in my camera tho. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) OK. I can get digikam to import from the card with a reader thingy. It took me a while, some hair pulling, a few threats of using a hammer but I got it to name them like I want. So, in the meantime I can get my pics. Thing is, to get to my card, I have to about disassemble the camera. I have to remove the mount for the tri-pod, the bottom and the battery to get it out. Well, it gives me a good excuse to charge the battery. Thing lasts for months on a charge tho. That battery is really long lasting. I still want to get gtkam fixed tho. It's much faster and simpler for me. Digikam has lots of bells and whistles I don't need. Dale :-) :-) P. S. For everyone else, never a crash or problem reading the card in the card reader thingy using the exact same cable. Worked like a charm. It seems USB just does not like cameras. -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE=debug nls -gimp -gnome This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. What could cause this? Anyone else run into this? While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about getting pics. Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
