Bug 111721 – Digikam-0.7.4 fails to detect camera with libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1. Otherwise works.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Decibels 2005-11-06 12:42:22 UTC]

Was doing some upgrades to find problem with microtek scanner not being attached
to scsi bus. Tried the sane-backends latest and it wanted to upgrade some
packages. It was then noticed that couldn't use my Kodak CX7430 with digikam
anymore.

During the upgrade it installed libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1. Started downgrading
packages and rechecking Digikam. When got time to downgrade libgphoto it wanted
to downgrade to:

pkgconfig-0.17.2-r1 
usbutils-0.11-r5
libgphoto2-2.1.6 

When it was done with the first two emerges and doing libgphoto2, I tested 
Digikam again. Still nogo. After libgphoto2 was back to version 2.1.6 again
tested and Digikam worked.

While using libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1 and Digikam-0.7.4 wasn't working tried
connecting to camera with gphoto2-2.1.6 . It worked fine and was able to 
download my pictures with gphoto2. So gphoto2 connected fine and was able
to retrieve pictures, whereas Digikam would not detect camera. 

Summary: Digikam-0.7.4 doesn't detect camera with libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1 .
gphoto2-2.1.6 works fine with libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1 and detects camera.

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.11-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/modules /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control
/var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aalib alsa arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups
curl dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib
ipv6 java jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql
ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime
readline scanner sdl spell ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev
usb userlocales vcd vorbis wmf xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Marcus D. Hanwell (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 08:18:02 UTC]

My camera is a UMS camera, and so I can't really test this functionality. I 
have been looking at the differences between the two versions and they do seem 
quite minimal. Are you in the plugdev group? Otherwise it seems to be pretty 
much the same as far as I can tell. I have CCed liquidx on this as he is the 
package maintainer for libgphoto2. 

[Comment 2 Decibels 2005-11-27 08:53:56 UTC]

Just tested it and that was it. Group 'plugdev' is one of those things they  
seem to have snuck in on me. Guess should have saw it when put the new 
/etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam config file in place. Well, at least this time saw 
the 'plugdev' in there.  
 
So instead of just closing this bug right away. When did plugdev get added? 
At least as far as libgphoto2 it started using it in this (r1) version.  
I checked enotices and there isn't anything on needing to add yourself to  
this group. 
 
Don't know how much good it would do, but maybe adding a enotice to the ebuild. 
Just a thought. Otherwise Fixed. 
 
Thanks! 
 
 

[Comment 3 Marcus D. Hanwell (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 10:07:04 UTC]

From the media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.6-r1 ebuild,  
  
    einfo "Don't forget to add yourself to the plugdev group "  
    einfo "if you want to be able to access your camera."  
  
So the notice is already in there, and they added it with the revbumped ebuild.  
So I am marking this as fixed now. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly :) 

[Comment 4 Decibels 2005-11-27 10:41:35 UTC]

Actually saw the notice 'einfo' this time, but if doing a lot of emerges may 
miss it. 
 
I am running thru all my 'enotice' files now in /var/enotice 
and it isn't there. Don't think it would be in odd company to add it so 
it would show up in /var/enotice would it?  
 
Aren't they wanting to start using this more so people don't miss important 
information? Just thought it was going to start being a standard place to  
put notices.