USB Device loads twice, WTF lucid lynx on lsd

[NoOp]

On 11/18/2010 02:45 PM, Nick Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:44 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/18/2010 03:48 AM, Nick Edwards wrote:
>> > So, I plug in my digital USB camera, and  I get multiple icons, I get
>> > multiple copies of gtkam, fspot and even if I set it to, "ask me" i still
>> > get multiple boxes appear, It likely wants to open more than twice but i
>> get
>> > an error cant lock device box, this never happened on hardy.
>> >
>> > Anyone got any pointers on how to resolve? It never used to do it and I
>> > swear that early use of lucid never did this, but something is now making
>> > it.
>>
>> Try opening Nautilus, then Edit|Preferences|Media|Photos: Ask me what to
>> do. It wasn't clear if you'd already done that, or just used the popup
>> to set 'ask me'.
>>
>>
>>
> tried both
> if i kill off the second one, and the cant lock device box, i can use the
> camera, just a PITA with all them trying o load, I also logged in as a new
> user, and got the same so it's not a local profile issue, udev may have lost
> the plot

Two possibilities that I can think of:

1. The USB port has noise on it and appearing to the system as if the
device is being plugged-in-out-in etc. Try a different USB port,
preferably one as close to motherboard as possible (rear port if on a
desktop). Also make sure that you don't connect to a USB hub extender etc.

2. gvfs is getting messed up.

Open two terminals. On one enter:

$ dmseg | tail

Plug in the camera and now do the same on the other terminal ('dmesg |
tail'). You should see the usb attempt in the 2nd terminal & it should
look something like:

[ 4152.176042] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 7
[ 4152.477059] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

If so, in the 1st terminal window:

$ cd ~/.gvfs
$ ls

and you should see the mount point:
<>:~/.gvfs$ ls
gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,007

Now unmount & then turn off the the camera and do ls again & the
mountpoint should not be there when you us 'ls' in gvfs. Now go back to
the first terminal & do:

$ dmesg | tail

and you should see where the device disconnected:
[ 4926.244210] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7

Note: f-spot doesn't use gvfs to mount, so make sure all insances of
f-spot are closed beforehand.