all photo programs crash when clicking on import

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/8/22 John F McEnroe <photo at hevanet.com>:
> Siggy,
>
>
> 1. DigiKam, f-spot,gthumb and GtKam respond to the attempt to "import"
> images from a camera by silently attempting to open a window. The window
> doesn't stay open long enough to see what it is.
>
> 2. I am still trying to determine if I properly did my "undos."
>
> 3. I attempted to download a newer version of libgphoto2 which was
> supposed to support my Canon PowerShot G10.
>
> 4. Attempting to set up a camera to import photos, I get no error
> message. The applications crash.

Have you tried to start those applications from a terminal? If you do,
you should see error messages when it crash in the terminal, if there
are any.

Johnny Rosenberg

>
> 5. I took a look at ~/.xsession-errors &c, but nothing jumped out at me.
> Then again it all looked like Greek to me!
>
> 6. I will go look for a card reader.
>
> THanks for the thoughts
>
> John McEnroe
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:33:11 +0200
>> From: Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de>
>> Subject: Re: all photo programs crash when clicking on import
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Message-ID: <20090821213311.GA28119 at keuner.winnegan.fake>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:46 -0700, 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.
>>
>> Do they crash silently?
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> If you did it correctly, there's no problem in reverting these
>> changes.
>>
>> > A week of cruising lists and attempting to solve the problem indicates
>> > that I do not know the correct questions to ask.
>>
>> Please tell us from which DSC you want to import photos, which
>> error messages you see, There may be some crucial info in
>> the file ~/.xsession-errors &c.
>>
>> > Is there a way of finding a solution to successfully importing
>> > photos in Ubuntu 9.04?
>>
>> If you use a flash memory device in your DSC, you can insert it
>> in a corresponding slot on your computer.  I did this years ago
>> when my DSC was still unsupported.
>>
>> HTH
>>   Siggy
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