USB not working with camera

[Colin Law]

On 14 December 2016 at 08:35, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> I currently tried to load some photos into Ubuntu 16.04, using a USB
> adapter for the 16G SD chip used in a Panasonic FZ200 camera. The chip
> is formatted by the camera. When plugged into any USB port on the box,
> the red LED on the adapter keeps repeating a series of flashes, but
> nothing is seen by Ubuntu - nothing happens on the screen, and discs
> does not show the USB at all.

In a terminal run
tail -f /var/log/syslog

Then plug the card in copy/paste the resulting terminal output here.

Is this the same system that is showing strange Nautilus effects? If
so then try the card while booted from a live CD.  If you see the same
issues then it is likely a related problem

Colin

>
> This works without any problem in my old 12.04 box, and has been used
> many, many times to transfer pictures. On discs in 12.04, it looks
> like a W95 fat32 LBA (0x0c) - nothing fancy at all. The USB/chip
> combination is also readable on a Windows box.
>
> A brand-new, never used, factory formatted, same brand SD chip DOES
> show up in 16.04 and also looks like a W95 fat32 LBA (0x0c) drive.
>
> Other devices, USB flash drives, and USB hard disks do seem to work
> properly on the 16.04 box. I have tried several different USB/chip
> adapters, all of which work in 12.04, but none of them work in 16.04.
> I am wondering if there is some kind of camera file format
> incompatibility that occurs in 16.04 that worked okay in 12.04 even
> though they both look like a W95 fat32 LBA (0x0c) drive.
>
> Any ideas why it doesn't work in 16.04?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  rikona
>
>
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