On Tue, May 2, 2006 11:10 pm, Barry wrote: > > > Barry wrote: > >>> >>> >>> what is the failure message? ie when you run >>> gphoto2 -p bigfilename >> >> I queried the camera filelist 1st--- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] store]$ gphoto2 --list-files >> There are no files in folder '/'. >> There are no files in folder '/store_00010001'. >> There are no files in folder '/store_00010001/DCIM'. >> There is one file in folder '/store_00010001/DCIM/100CANON': >> #1 MVI_0001.AVI 173140 KB video/x-msvideo >> There are no files in folder '/store_00010001/MISC'. >> There are no files in folder '/store_00020010'. >> >> then tried to download with >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] store]$ gphoto2 -p "1" --filename "test4.avi" >> Downloading 'MVI_0001.AVI' from folder >> '/store_00010001/DCIM/100CANON'... >> gphoto2: symbol lookup error: gphoto2: undefined symbol: >> GP_SYSTEM_IS_FILE >> >> the last line I think indicates a fault in the source code - b*****r > > the same fault appeared when I tried to download off my old camera which > has worked ok for years. May be a clash between the new libgphoto2 & old > gphoto2. I will check this out next. > > Box has 256 ram with 64 reserved for monitor. Now has 235000km swap
*sigh* thats why you upgrade via your distro if possible. Have you tried compiling gphoto2 as well as libgphoto2? first of all though try running through strace: strace gphoto2 (rest of command line) it should give you some clue as to what is failing. > > >> >> Prior to this last attempt I have increased swap to 235000KB and >> compiled and installed the latest libgphoto2-2.1.99 >> >> Over 163000kb of swap was used during the transfer attempt. >> It appears that the whole file is held in memory until reading finishes, >> then it is written to disk. >> > Barry > >
