On 12/24/2010 07:34 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > On 12/19/2010 09:55 PM, Dale wrote: >> Andy Wilkinson wrote: >>> So, the only issue that I consistently have in Gentoo anymore is >>> that there exist periods of time (probably coincident with gphoto2 >>> or gvfs upgrades) wherein I can't automount my PTP digital camera (a >>> Nikon D60, if it's relevant) and use gthumb to import my photos. >>> I'm able to use gphoto2 to do so just fine, and so I do, but it >>> bothers me that the way I'd prefer to do things doesn't work the way >>> I'd like it to. Currently I'm in a "doesn't work" phase, as you may >>> have surmised. >>> >>> To make matters worse, when gvfs/nautilus doesn't see the camera at >>> all, I have no idea at all how to find out what messages might have >>> been sent where, or why gvfs might not be seeing it, or >>> what-have-you. None of the usual suspects (dmesg, >>> /var/log/messages, ~/.xsession-errors) have anything useful. dmesg >>> does at least tell me that I'm seeing the USB device properly. >>> >>> Is there a tried-and-true method of at least troubleshooting this >>> sort of issue, or am I stuck throwing darts at the different gphoto2 >>> and gvfs builds in portage? >>> >>> I've attached emerge --info gvfs gphoto2, for the curious. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Andy >> >> Firstly, I don't use Gnome and our cameras are different. This may >> not matter for your setup but thought it worth checking into. I have >> this for my Canon in make.conf: >> >> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" >> >> I use the ptp2 and most likely need to remove the other but you may >> need to set yours to something that your camera uses. CAMERAS="ptp2" >> just may work. >> >> Usually a emerge -pv <package> will show the options available. It >> does here anyway. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > Alas, changing CAMERAS didn't work. But I'm not surprised, as gphoto2 > has always found the camera just fine, regardless of what Gnome > thinks. I suspect that my issue is closer to a libgphoto2/gvfs > incompatibility, but I've no data on which to test that. I suppose I > could just start compiling ~arch masked builds of libgphoto2 and see > if any of them stick, but I would love some sort of cleaner answer. > > Thanks, > > -Andy OK, so I decided to try around with different combinations, and it turns out I actually was running a ~arch version of libgphoto2 (I had unmasked 2.4* for compatibility with gthumb-2.12, iirc). Downgrading from libgphoto2-2.4.10 to -2.4.9 fixed things.
Why? :) Thanks, -Andy
