Strange udev camera problem and solution?

[Paul Thompson]

Forgot to say, my distro is Ubuntu Edgy, fully uptodate.

On 4/5/07, Paul Thompson <ubantu001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I plug my camera's into my PC's (Cannon IXUS55 and a G5
> Powershot) usb port I get the following message when the Import
> Photo's dialog comes up:-
>
> 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.
>
> So I Googled and found this:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=340271  AND
> http://commandline.org.uk/2007/my-day-with-ubuntu-edgy-eft/#comment-18946
>
> Did what they advised but no joy. So I had a closer look at
> 45-libgphoto2.rules and found this at the top:
>
> # udev rules file for libgphoto2 devices (udev < 0.98)
> #
> BUS!="usb*", GOTO="libgphoto2_rules_end"
> ACTION!="add", GOTO="libgphoto2_rules_end"
>
> This BUS! instruction (as I understand it) is telling it to go to the
> end of the rules and the rules are never checked! I comented out the
> BUS! instruction and now everything is working just fine.
>
> Could this be something that should be reported and if so who to?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>