all photo programs crash when clicking on import

[NoOp]

On 08/20/2009 11:46 AM, John F McEnroe wrote:
> 
> Using Ubuntu 9.04 attempting to import photos causes digiKam, f-spot,
> gthumb and GtKam to crash or fail to open.
> 
> Because if the universal nature of the crashing, I am assuming the
> problem may lie with libgphoto2 and gphoto. Initially I had problems,
> but I made it worse by attempting to install a version not in the Ubuntu
> repositories.

What version? I'd recommend that you purge whatever you installed and
reinstall from the repositories.

> 
> A week of cruising lists and attempting to solve the problem indicates
> that I do not know the correct questions to ask.
> 
> Is there a way of finding a solution to successfully importing photos in
> Ubuntu 9.04?

These might help:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport